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Nov 13, 2012

NATO Secretary General: ‘We need a defence recovery’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  Defence spending is declining across the Alliance. We need an economic recovery. And based on that, we need a defence recovery. We need to stop the decline. And then we need to reverse it.

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2012

Divided Government and America’s Bipartisan Africa Policy

By Peter Pham

After a bitterly fought campaign that was the most expensive in history, the American electorate voted to keep the divided government that many told pollsters was responsible for the gridlock that has seriously weakened the United States. President Obama won a second term, albeit by a far closer margin than his historic 2008 election. Democrats […]

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Nov 1, 2012

A Tale of Two Asias

By Evan A. Feigenbaum and Robert A. Manning

Whatever happened to the “Asian Century?” In recent months, two Asias, wholly incompatible, have emerged in stark relief.There is “Economic Asia,” the Dr. Jekyll — a dynamic, integrated Asia with 53 percent of its trade now being conducted within the region itself, and a $19 trillion regional economy that has become an engine of global […]

Economy & Business Indo-Pacific

New Atlanticist

Oct 26, 2012

Merkel’s Great Euro Deception

By Julian Lindley-French

In the run-up to D-Day in 1944 the British ran a superb deception campaign called Operation Fortitude to fool the Germans as to the real location of the invasion. It worked spectacularly. Today, the Germans are being fooled again, this time by their own government.

Economy & Business European Union

Event Recap

Oct 24, 2012

Economic Policies in Egypt: Populism or Reforms?

By Jason Harmala

At a roundtable event on October 24, the Hariri Center released a new issue brief authored by senior fellow Mohsin Khan and assistant director Svetlana Milbert, entitled “Economic Policies in Egypt: Populism or Reforms?”

Economy & Business North Africa

New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2012

I Wish the Candidates Had Said That

By Harlan Ullman

More than a century ago, the eccentric writer Oscar Wilde overheard George Bernard Shaw make a particularly witty remark. Wilde slyly muttered, no doubt with malice aforethought, the compliment “I wish I had said that!” Shaw, a literary competitor and no friend of Wilde’s sensed a plagiarism in the making and retorted, “You will, Oscar. […]

Economy & Business Elections

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2012

Hague: If EU completed free trade negotiations, ‘GDP could be increased by up to $77 billion a year’

By William Hague, British Foreign Ministry

From William Hague, British Foreign Ministry:  Many European economies are stagnant. Weak public finances, and a recovering financial system mean we cannot rely on increased public or consumer spending for growth.

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Oct 22, 2012

The Five Most Urgent National Security Issues for the Next President

By Kurt Volker

President Obama and Mitt Romney will battle over foreign policy in tonight’s third and final presidential debate. No matter who wins the presidential election November 6, Mr. Romney or Mr. Obama will have to confront five urgent national security issues in the first weeks of his term.

Economy & Business Elections

Event Recap

Oct 22, 2012

Financial Reform: Finishing the Job

By Jason Harmala

On October 22, 2012, the Atlantic Council hosted a members’ roundtable with Dr. Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, on the issue of financial reform and what steps the United States should take in order to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.

Economy & Business

NATOSource

Oct 19, 2012

U.S.-German relationship on the rocks

By Ian Bremmer and Mark Leonard, Washington Post

From Ian Bremmer and Mark Leonard, Washington Post:  [W]hy does a widening divide between Berlin and Washington threaten the entire Western alliance?

Economy & Business United States and Canada

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