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Featured Analysis

Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

New Atlanticist Aug 11, 2025

The US-EU trade agreement is not set in stone. This presents pitfalls and opportunities.

By Charles Lichfield

The trade and tariff deal recently struck in Scotland has several important elements that are yet to be determined.
Economy & Business European Union
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

New Atlanticist Aug 4, 2025

Trump’s review of US membership in the IMF offers a rare chance for reform

By Martin Mühleisen

The institution needs its major shareholders aligned to tackle new challenges, and it deserves a management team qualified to lead it on this new path.
Economy & Business International Financial Institutions
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

New Atlanticist Aug 1, 2025

How Donald Trump remade global trade

By Josh Lipsky

The US president has smashed the system, but the speed and scale of the smashing owes to a system that had been growing increasingly brittle for years. 
Economy & Business Macroeconomics
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

Sinographs Jul 31, 2025

Beijing extends and pretends to deal with its mountain of local government debt

By Jeremy Mark

Beijing’s three-year local debt restructuring plan fails to actually address the trillions of dollars weighing on local governments and will only cause greater problems down the road.
China Economy & Business
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

Econographics Aug 22, 2025

Trump’s challenges to the Fed’s independence loom over Jackson Hole Symposium

By Alisha Chhangani

As Trump tests the limits of what he can do, the credibility of the Fed—and by extension, global financial stability—is increasingly at risk.
Economy & Business Macroeconomics
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

New Atlanticist Jul 17, 2025

What Ancient Greece can teach the United States about defending against cyber attacks

By Carole House

Applying lessons from the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC to present-day cyber warfare is surprisingly instructive.
Cybersecurity Iran

In-Depth Research

Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

Issue Brief Jun 6, 2025

How Japanese economic statecraft has shifted from promotion to protection

By Charles Lichfield

Japan is in a geopolitically challenging neighborhood and is witnessing the basic tenets of its foreign policy—from alignment with the United States to fostering a rules-based environment—come under unprecedented stress.
East Asia Economy & Business
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

Issue Brief Apr 28, 2025

Modernizing the tools of economic statecraft to meet the challenges of today

By Lesley Chavkin, Eitan Danon, Kimberly Donovan, Andrew Gallucci, and Caroline Hill

As the current administration revisits the functions and mechanics of government, near-term steps can be taken, under existing statutory authorities, to modernize how the United States uses its economic strength to combat national security threats and promote American interests.
Economy & Business Financial Crimes & Illicit Trade
Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

Issue Brief Mar 3, 2025

Financing the future: Unlocking private capital for global infrastructure and climate goals

By Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou, Nisha Narayanan, Hung Tran

MDBs and international financial institutions alone cannot bridge the climate and development financing gaps.
Economy & Business Financial Regulation

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Econographics

Jan 28, 2026

China’s property slump deepens—and threatens more than the housing sector

By Jeremy Mark

China’s property sector slump is in its fifth year, with no end in sight. This poses real risks to the banking system and the country’s financial stability.

China
Economy & Business

Podcast

Jan 27, 2026

Markets, monetary policy, and central bank independence

By The GeoEconomics Center

In this episode of Guide to the Global Economy, Josh Lipsky and Sophia Busch assess the significance of the US Justice Department’s investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and growing tensions between the White House and the Fed over interest rates, why markets aren’t reacting to the clash, and what’s at stake for US economic credibility and the US economy as a whole.

Economy & Business

Econographics

Jan 26, 2026

Africa enters 2026 facing a debt crisis. The answer lies in regional solutions.

By Juliet Lancey

The solution to debt crises in African nations lies in global and regional cooperation.

Africa
Financial Regulation
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May 8, 2024

Full transcript: The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards recognize skillful leaders navigating a world of crises

The Atlantic Council honored government, military, and artistic leaders who are bolstering security and advocating for the most vulnerable globally.

Central Europe
Crisis Management

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2024

The 2024 Distinguished Leadership Awards: Celebrating leaders with insight, experience, and resolve

By Katherine Golden

On May 8, the Atlantic Council honored Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, General Christopher G. Cavoli, and actress and producer Michelle Yeoh for their leadership.

Economy & Business
Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

May 8, 2024

Kumar interviewed on Penta podcast on geopolitics of digital currencies

Listen to the full interview here.

Digital Currencies
Digital Policy

Econographics

May 8, 2024

‘Creative solutions’ with Russia’s immobilized assets must rise to the challenge Ukraine now faces

By Oleg Dunda

$280 billion of Russian reserves can be used more strategically–without crossing red lines–to get funding to Ukraine.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
International Financial Institutions

In the News

May 7, 2024

Fontenrose joins Bloomberg Radio to discuss Iran sanctions

By Atlantic Council

Conflict
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2024

Panama has a new president. José Raúl Mulino should focus on these three priorities.

By Felipe Félix Méndez

By implementing these changes, the Mulino administration will be able to place Panama on a path of inclusive and sustainable development.

Economy & Business
Elections

Econographics

May 7, 2024

The Enrico Letta Report and the state of the EU’s Capital Market Union

By Hung Tran

The Letta report emphasizes transforming the EU's fragmented markets by prioritizing harmonization over new financial products, but achieving this requires a significant and sustained effort.

Economy & Business
Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2024

Colombia’s president must focus on economic stewardship in the second half of his term

By Enrique Millán-Mejía, Geoff Ramsey

President Gustavo Petro should adopt a steadier hand on domestic issues and a more cooperative stance toward international private sector investment.

Colombia
Economy & Business

In the News

May 7, 2024

Russia Sanctions Database cited by RUSI policy brief on sanctions circumvention

Read the full policy brief here.

Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion
Russia

Economic de-risking

May 7, 2024

A new US economic playbook to lead the world economy and counter China

By Kaush Arha, Peter Harrell, and Clete Willems

The United States needs a new comprehensive economic strategy to advance US interests and deter China’s ability to do them harm.

China
Climate Change & Climate Action
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Experts

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Ghita Benabderrazik

Investment Director, The Rockefeller Foundation

Millennium Leadership Program

Americas Economy & Business

Fellow

Deneyse A. Kirkpatrick

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Africa Center

Africa Civil Society

Fellow

Itai Melchior

Nonresident Senior Fellow, N7 Initiative

Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs

Artificial Intelligence Economy & Business

Fellow

Eric V. Guichard

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Africa Center

Africa Corruption

Fellow

Daniel P. Erikson

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Economy & Business International Organizations

Millennium fellow

John Heinemann

Senior Counsel, United States Senate

Millennium Leadership Program

Economy & Business United States and Canada
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Events

Public Event Thu, February 5, 2026 • 3:00 pm ET

Balkans Forward Summit
Civil Society Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia Politics & Diplomacy
Online Event Thu, February 12, 2026 • 10:00 am ET

Iraq’s economic agenda for the next government
Economy & Business Elections Iraq Middle East
Flagship Event Fri, December 11, 2026 • 8:30 am ET

2026 Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics

The Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics is an annual flagship convening focused on issues at the nexus of economics, finance, foreign policy, and national security.
Digital Policy Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia European Union