What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

New Atlanticist May 7, 2025

What will Labor’s landslide mean for Australia’s foreign policy?

By Peter J. Dean

While Australian voters clearly rejected the Trump administration, both the country’s leaders and electorate still support close US ties.
Australia Elections
What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

New Atlanticist May 6, 2025

Is Merz’s double-take chancellor vote a sign of things to come in Germany?

By Jörn Fleck and Jurek Wille

It took two rounds of voting in the Bundestag to elect Friedrich Merz chancellor, a sign of division unprecedented in modern German history.
Defense Policy Elections
What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

New Atlanticist May 1, 2025

Foreign policy was a hot topic in Canada’s election. Now it’s on Carney to make it last.

By Imran Bayoumi, Maite Gonzalez Latorre

The campaign is over. Now, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faces several important choices, from how to increase defense spending to what a new relationship with the United States should look like.
Elections Politics & Diplomacy

Transatlantic Horizons

Charting an ambitious agenda for the United States and Europe for 2025 and beyond.

What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

Inflection Points Today Feb 24, 2025

History’s clock is ticking (again) in Germany

Likely incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s election-night mention of the need for “independence” from Washington signals the stakes of this moment for Germany and Europe.

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What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

New Atlanticist Feb 4, 2025

The next German chancellor must lead from the front, not the middle, on European security

By Rachel Rizzo, James Batchik

From support for Ukraine to defense spending, German leaders would be wise to take the phrase Führung aus der Mitte permanently out of their vocabulary.
Elections Germany
What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

New Atlanticist Feb 19, 2025

Germany’s economy has gone from engine to anchor. Here’s what the next chancellor faces.

By Piotr Arak

Revitalizing growth in Germany’s economy, which appears increasingly mired in stagnation, will demand urgent action from the next chancellor.
Economy & Business Elections

Content

UkraineAlert

Sep 10, 2019

What Zelenskyy’s perfect picture is missing

By Olena Prokopenko

The future of Ukraine’s key reform driver, its vibrant civil society, is missing and seriously threatened both by internal and external challenges.

Civil Society
Elections

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

In the News

Sep 10, 2019

Ben Mahfoudh quoted in The New Arab: Women set to play a decisive role in Tunisia’s elections after Essebsi’s death
Elections
North Africa

In the News

Sep 7, 2019

Ben Mahfoudh quoted in The Arab Weekly: Tunisia’s presidential candidates on the offensive ahead of vote
Elections
North Africa

New Atlanticist

Sep 5, 2019

Democratic hopefuls show enhanced dedication to fighting climate crisis

By David A. Wemer

What united all of the candidates was a recognition that climate change would need to be a major focus of the next president.

Climate Change & Climate Action
Elections

New Atlanticist

Sep 4, 2019

Westminster tries to rein Johnson in and avoid no-deal

By David A. Wemer

Arguing that the bill would mean he would lose all leverage with Brussels over a new withdrawal agreement, Johnson said “there is only one way forward for the country…there must now be an election.”

Elections
European Union

In the News

Sep 3, 2019

Ben Mahfoudh quoted in TRTWorld: A diverse line-up of contestants gear up for Tunisia’s presidential race
Elections
North Africa

MENASource

Aug 30, 2019

Israel actions against Hezbollah to boost Netanyahu in upcoming election?

By Nicholas Blanford

A number of unusual Israeli air strikes into Lebanon at the weekend have brought Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah organization potentially closer to conflict today than at any other time since the end of the month-long war between these two foes in July-August 2006.

Elections
Israel

In the News

Aug 22, 2019

Steve Levine in Axios about Russian interferences

By Atlantic Council

Americas
Cybersecurity

In the News

Aug 20, 2019

Lipner in Foreign Policy: Trump Doesn’t Care About Israel. He Cares About Reelection.

By Atlantic Council

Elections
Israel
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Experts

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Henrique Arevalo Poincot

Visiting Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Elections Latin America

Fellow

Dean Jackson

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Policy Elections

Fellow

Leslie Shedd

Nonresident Fellow

Eurasia Center

Eastern Europe Elections

Staff

Nika Aleksejeva

Resident Fellow, Baltics

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Belarus Disinformation

Fellow

Lukas Andriukaitis

Nonresident Fellow

Digital Forensic Research Lab

Disinformation Eastern Europe

Staff

Nitansha Bansal

Associate Director

Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity
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Navigating shifts in Africa’s post-election business environment
Africa Economy & Business Elections