Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

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
Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

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
Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

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.

Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

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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Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

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
Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

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

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Inflection Points Today

Sep 30, 2024

Zelenskyy and the challenge of navigating election-year America

By Frederick Kempe

The Ukrainian president’s recent fraught visit to the US underscored both the historic stakes of the election and the perils involved in maneuvering around the parties.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Sep 27, 2024

Bozmoski on Bloomberg Balance of Power

By Atlantic Council

On September 27, 2024, Deputy Director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center María Fernanda Bozmoski was interviewed on Bloomberg’s Balance of Power about Kamala Harris’s visit to the US-Mexico border. More about our expert

Elections Latin America

Eye on Europe's elections

Sep 27, 2024

What to know about Austria’s parliamentary elections

By Ian Cameron and Thomas Goldstein

As Austrians prepare to select their next parliament, Europe Center experts analyze the key stories to watch ahead of the vote.

Elections Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Sep 26, 2024

US election security is seeing a rise in ‘complex’ threats—and it’s not just foreign actors, says Lisa Monaco

By Katherine Golden

Monaco, speaking at the Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics, attributed the rise in complexity to the fact that “more threat actors” are “getting into the game."

China Economic Sanctions

In the News

Sep 17, 2024

Charai in National Interest: The Second Trump Assassination Attempt Shows Why America Must Stand United

By Atlantic Council

Civil Society Democratic Transitions

New Atlanticist

Sep 11, 2024

Senator Chris Murphy on why US foreign policy is ‘mismatched’ to its challenges and what Democrats can do about it

By Katherine Golden

Murphy argued that the United States is spending heavily on military aid and investment but not enough on solutions to the “most serious threats” for the United States.

Conflict Elections

New Atlanticist

Sep 11, 2024

Experts react: What the presidential debate revealed about how Trump and Harris would conduct foreign policy

By Atlantic Council experts

On Tuesday night in Philadelphia, the two candidates often presented sharply contrasting visions on a range of foreign policy issues, from tariffs to energy and immigration, and from China to the Middle East.

Economy & Business Elections

Insights & Impact

Sep 10, 2024

Palkar on the Constitution of India

By Srujan Palkar

Read the full article for the South Asian Herald

Elections Freedom and Prosperity

Experts react

Sep 9, 2024

Experts react: Maduro has forced Venezuela’s opposition leader into exile. What should the world do now?

By Atlantic Council experts

Over the weekend, opposition leader Edmundo González fled to Spain after a Venezuelan court issued a warrant for his arrest. Atlantic Council experts share their insights on what’s next.

Corruption Democratic Transitions

MENASource

Sep 7, 2024

Will Jordan’s new electoral law bring real change?

By Ahmad Sharawi

The resulting changes are likely only cosmetic since Jordanian parties are not winning voters’ confidence for various reasons.

Elections Middle East
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Henrique Arevalo

Visiting Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Elections Latin America

Fellow

Ethel Rudnitzki

Nonresident Journalist Fellow

Global China Hub

Brazil China

Expert

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
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