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New Atlanticist

Mar 14, 2019

US-EU trade negotiations: Talking past each other

By Hung Tran

Even before it officially starts, the US-EU trade negotiation has already hit a roadblock—over the agenda.

European Union Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Mar 13, 2019

Trump’s new Cuba policy threatens to reignite historic disagreement with key allies

By Samantha Sultoon

While the Trump administration is right to support human rights and shifts to democracy in both Cuba and Venezuela, this is a shortsighted, ineffective way to achieve such laudable policy objectives.

Cuba Economic Sanctions

New Atlanticist

Mar 6, 2019

US-India trade relationship heads into choppy waters

By Mark Linscott

Trump signals end to preferential trade treatment for India.

India Trade and tariffs

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2019

US-China trade deal close, but will it actually repair the relationship?

By Hung Tran

Despite the apparent momentum in the talks, it is unclear that the negotiations will remove all of the trade barriers and economic grievances between both sides.

China Trade and tariffs

UkraineAlert

Mar 4, 2019

Why do so few presidential candidates support NATO and EU membership?

By Taras Kuzio

Out of forty-two candidates who are running for president in the Ukrainian elections on March 31, only eleven support NATO and EU membership. This represents a lower proportion of supporters than the over 300 deputies who voted on three occasions to change the constitution to include those two goals. Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party and the Radical […]

Defense Policy Elections

New Atlanticist

Mar 4, 2019

One year since the Skripals were poisoned, Russia has not given up its confrontational policy toward the West

By Ashish Kumar Sen

One year later, “Russia shows no sign of rethinking its confrontational policy toward the West,” said Alexander Vershbow.

Economic Sanctions Russia

UkraineAlert

Mar 4, 2019

Who is ready to lead Ukraine?

By Kostiantyn Romashko

It’s election season in Ukraine. While there are forty-two candidates officially registered, the competition, according to recent polls, comes down to three: incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and newcomer and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In January, UkraineAlert examined the foreign policy views of the five leading candidates. Now we narrow the focus […]

Defense Policy Elections

Event Recap

Mar 4, 2019

Zimbabwe’s finance minister discusses reform agenda

By Africa Center

On Monday, March 4, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a discussion with H.E. Dr. Mthuli Ncube, minister of finance and economic development of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Focusing on Zimbabwe’s short-term stabilization plan, Ncube presented the progress made on key economic reforms since he was appointed to the finance ministry by President Emmerson Mnangagwa […]

Africa Economic Sanctions

Issue Brief

Mar 1, 2019

The illicit tobacco trade in Zimbabwe and South Africa

By Simone Haysom

This groundbreaking study of the illicit tobacco trade in southern Africa explores how this trade supports organized crime, helps enable official corruption, and erodes state structures.

Non-Traditional Threats South Africa

Event Recap

Mar 1, 2019

Building a Capable State: Ukraine Reforms Architecture

By GLOBAL BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

On March 1st, the Atlantic Council’s Global Business & Economics Program’s EuroGrowth Initiative, together with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center co-hosted a discussion on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) efforts to promote ambitious reforms of the Ukrainian economy.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

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