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Mar 10, 2025

Experts react: What Mark Carney means for the US-Canada relationship

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As the next prime minister of Canada prepares to take office, Atlantic Council experts look at what’s ahead for Ottawa and its relationship with Washington.

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The Weak Hand of Somalia’s New President

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Feb 28, 2025

Senegal’s president must not miss the opportunity afforded by the country’s democratic spotlight

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President Bassirou Diomaye Faye must actively use the opportunity provided by the rekindling flame of democracy to usher in a new era.

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The Weak Hand of Somalia’s New President

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Feb 20, 2025

Ukrainians are proudly democratic but resoundingly reject wartime elections

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Peter Dickinson

Ukraine’s fight for democracy has been at the heart of the country’s struggle against the past two decades of escalating Russian aggression, but Ukrainians overwhelmingly reject the idea of staging dangerous wartime elections before peace is secured, writes Peter Dickinson.

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The Weak Hand of Somalia’s New President

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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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The Weak Hand of Somalia’s New President

New Atlanticist
Feb 4, 2025

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

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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.

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The Weak Hand of Somalia’s New President

New Atlanticist
Feb 19, 2025

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

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Piotr Arak

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

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New Atlanticist

Sep 11, 2012

The Weak Hand of Somalia’s New President

By Peter Pham

Yesterday the members of Somalia’s rump parliament elected a civil society activist and educator, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, to head the failed state’s sixteenth transitional entity since 1991.  

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Aug 30, 2012

How Romney Can Win the Foreign Policy Debate

By R. Nicholas Burns

As Mitt Romney accepts the Republican presidential nomination to run against Barack Obama, his first test is to explain how he can revive the American economy and put people back to work — the dominant issue in the election. But Romney also faces a second test — how will he lead the world’s most powerful […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Aug 10, 2012

Romney’s Not Obama Doctrine

By Julian Lindley-French

All American presidents like to establish a doctrine; a coherent set of foreign and security policy goals that underpin US leadership in the world. What does Mitt Romney’s recent foreign tour say about a future President Romney’s foreign and security policy? Can the beginnings of a Romney Doctrine be discerned?

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Aug 3, 2012

Mitt Romney Flunks His Foreign Policy Tryout

By R. Nicholas Burns

Governor Mitt Romney had a chance to demonstrate on his trip to Great Britain, Israel, and Poland that he is ready to take on the duties of America’s top diplomat and commander in chief — among the presidency’s most vital responsibilities. Yet for reasons that are hard to understand, Romney undermined himself through surprising lapses […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Jul 25, 2012

Romney’s Trans-Atlantic Policy Needs a Reboot

By Annette Heuser and Tyson Barker

Mitt Romney’s first foreign tour as the Republican Party’s likely presidential candidate includes visits to two European states. While designed to send a message to potential voters at home, particularly blue-collar Reagan Democrats in the Midwest, the trip will be about photo opportunities. Romney’s visit to London is meant to echo his own successful management […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Jul 19, 2012

It’s the Competitiveness, Stupid

By Frederick Kempe

America deserves better. If only this year’s presidential candidates were as focused on global competitiveness as are America’s business leaders, the world’s most important economy and democracy would already have become the “Comeback Kid,” portrayed on this week’s Economist cover as a muscle-bound Uncle Sam.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Jul 13, 2012

US Presidential Campaign Drive Overshadows Larger Issues

By Harlan Ullman

Politics in the United States have deteriorated to the point that winning elections has transcended the need for providing effective government. Perpetual campaigning, matched by a perpetual Easter egg hunt for money, has become the default setting for politicians elected to both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. This year’s presidential election is further evidence of this […]

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Europe After The Vote

Jun 21, 2012

Post-Electoral Greece

By Matthew Bryza

While markets in Europe and the United States breathed a collective sigh of relief with the victory of the sober Antonis Samaras and his New Democracy Party in last Sunday’s Greek parliamentary elections, the absence of a substantial market rally immediately thereafter reflected the seriousness of the work that lies ahead. Greece may have dodged […]

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New Atlanticist

May 30, 2012

The Mother of All (Fiscal) Tsunamis

By Harlan Ullman

Imagine you are aboard a palatial huge cruise ship — longer than three football fields and more than 100,000 tons in displacement. You are in the Atlantic. You receive an urgent text message. A giant tidal wave is headed in your direction and will hit the ship in about 2 hours. A satellite photo of […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 19, 2012

Does America Still Want to Lead the World?

By Frederick Kempe

For all their bitter differences, President Obama and Governor Romney share one overwhelming challenge. Whoever is elected will face the growing reality that the greatest risk to global stability over the next 20 years may be the nature of America itself. Nothing – not Iranian or North Korean nuclear weapons, not violent extremists or Mideast […]

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Melinda Haring

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Ukraine Civil Society

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Katie Harbath

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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Adrian Karatnycky

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Eurasia Center

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Laura Linderman

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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