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Sep 17, 2019

America’s foreign policy needs more than a replacement for John Bolton

By Atlantic Council

For The Hill, Dr. Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and his Research Associate Julian Mueller-Kaler look at increasing Sino-US tensions, economic decoupling efforts, and the emergence of a new Cold War on technology.

China
Conflict

Op-Ed

Sep 16, 2019

Maria Fernanda Perez Arguello in The Hill: US-Mexico-Canada trade pact: A necessity in fragile global economy

By María Fernanda Bozmoski

Mexico
Trade and tariffs

Issue briefs and reports

Sep 16, 2019

Key principles for economic policy and judiciary in Ukraine

By Eurasia Center

Ukrainian business leaders commit to principles of rule of law and economic policy in Ukraine.

Economy & Business
English

Inflection Points

Sep 14, 2019

Abu Dhabi dispatch: The great Sino-US decoupling

By Frederick Kempe

Delegates at this year’s World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi UAE continued to worry about the US-Chinese trade war. At the same time, however, they were shifting more focus to the more momentous and generational event of a US-Chinese economic decoupling.

China
Energy Markets & Governance

Issue Brief

Sep 12, 2019

US surveillance on trial in Europe: Will transatlantic digital commerce be collateral damage?

By Kenneth Propp

In this issue brief, Kenneth Propp, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative, examines the existing transatlantic data-transfer mechanisms, the landmark court case that could invalidate them, and the divergent US and EU approaches to data transfers across borders and privacy standards.

Digital Policy
Europe & Eurasia

Report

Sep 12, 2019

Russia’s intervention in Venezuela: What’s at stake?

By John E. Herbst and Jason Marczak

Venezuela is suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory, Russia has become a key actor that has provided a lifeline of support to Maduro and his cronies. Today, Russia’s efforts to prop up Nicolás Maduro have been a relatively low-cost, but high-reward strategy for Moscow to sow further instability in the United States' own hemisphere.

Democratic Transitions
Financial Sanctions and Economic Coercion

UkraineAlert

Sep 10, 2019

Ukraine’s libertarian revolution

By James Brooke

Many Ukrainian free marketers are sulking in the sidelines because they misread the Zelenskyy movement last spring.

Elections
Macroeconomics

New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2019

Leveraging AI to transform power grid security

By Lukas Trakimavičius

Given our acute dependency on an uninterrupted supply of power, it is hardly surprising that power grids are among the most strategically important pieces of infrastructure for economic and national security alike.

Cybersecurity
Defense Policy

UkraineAlert

Sep 6, 2019

The saga of David and Goliath on the outskirts of Kyiv

By Yuri Polakiwsky

As a newly elected president and parliament have been sworn in, and a new government formed, the new political class must be ready to radically transform the values of Ukraine’s business culture.

Economy & Business
Political Reform

New Atlanticist

Sep 5, 2019

Purveying arms through carrot and stick

By Sarosh Bana

US arms sales to India have risen more than fivefold over the last five years and now account for 12 per cent of India’s defense imports, according to a recent study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Defense Industry
India

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