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In the News

Jan 9, 2025

Bauerle Danzman quoted by the New York Times on the economic impacts of a domestic US Steel merger

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Economy & Business Japan

New Atlanticist

Jan 8, 2025

Is 2025 the year that Russia’s economy finally freezes up under sanctions?

By Mark Temnycky

It’s taken years, but the Russian economy now appears to be experiencing the full effects of international sanctions. The first signs appeared at the end of 2024.

Economy & Business Oil and Gas

Issue Brief

Jan 8, 2025

Recalibrating the use of individual sanctions in Venezuela 

By Geoff Ramsey, Lucie Kneip

As Maduro consolidates power in Venezuela, who has the United States sanctioned—and are those sanctions working?

Democratic Transitions Economic Sanctions

Russia Tomorrow

Jan 8, 2025

Sanctioned kleptocracy: How Putin’s kremligarchs have survived the war—and even prospered

By Ilya Zaslavskiy

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores how Russia’s kleptocratic networks infiltrated the West and measures the US and Europe can take to combat the malign influence of Russian kleptocracy around the globe.

Corruption Economic Sanctions

MENASource

Jan 8, 2025

What’s behind Egypt and China’s ‘golden decade’ of partnership

By Jonathan Fulton

China’s outreach to Egypt has not happened in a vacuum but rather as part of a larger strategy to make Beijing a more important actor in the Middle East and North Africa.  

China Economy & Business

In the News

Jan 7, 2025

Bauerle Danzman interviewed by NPR on why the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States was split on the Nippon-US Steel deal

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Economy & Business Japan
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and his Kurdish counterpart Masrour Barzani sign deal to restart northern oil exports in Baghdad, April 4, 2023.

Report

Jan 6, 2025

Kurdistan’s share of the 2024 Iraqi budget: More than meets the eye

By Ahmed Tabaqchali

How to account for the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan has complicated budgeting in Baghdad in the past. The latest budget cycle may have addressed some of these problems—and may help reset Baghdad-Erbil relations.

Economy & Business Iraq

In the News

Jan 6, 2025

Warrick quoted in The Washington Post on the incoming presidential administration’s visa debate

On December 28, Thomas S. Warrick, director of the Future of DHS project at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, was quoted in The Washington Post on the discussion within the incoming Trump administration on H-1B visas, which allow highly-skilled immigrants to […]

Economy & Business Migration

New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2025

The Draghi report grabbed Europe’s attention. Now it’s time for the EU to put it into action.

By Carlo Altomonte and Valbona Zeneli

Enhancing the European Union’s competitiveness is compatible with strengthening its economic relations with the United States.

Economy & Business European Union

In the News

Jan 6, 2025

Charai in the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune: Look to Middle Eastern Diasporas for Figures to Inspire Change

By Atlantic Council

Civil Society Democratic Transitions

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