Politics & Diplomacy

Libya, the US, and the Palermo Conference

By Karim Mezran and Erin A. Neale

The United States has much to gain by taking a larger leadership role in the political negotiations and redirecting the tangential European actions toward the UN-led stabilization process.

World War I commemoration gives Emmanuel Macron an opportunity to shine

By Dan Haverty

The opportunity to step into the role of de facto leader of Europe presents an inherent challenge. Macron will likely become a target of scorn for populists across Europe who will invariably use his failures as a symbol of the flawed European project as a whole.

TRADE IN ACTION November 9, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

One hundred years of American grand strategy

By Daniel Fried

Historians have not been kind to Wilson or the Fourteen Points. They have fairly noted the inconsistencies, hypocrisies, and nasty unintended consequences of Wilson’s outline of US global leadership.

Europe’s primary season

By Nick Ottens

In Spain, parties have opened up their leadership contests to all members, not just delegates. In France, even non-members can vote in presidential primaries. And Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will for the first time have a competitive leadership election this year.

How will the outcome of the Midterms affect Trump’s policy options?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

“Expect louder voices defending democracy in America and around the world, expect a unified bipartisan cry on behalf of human rights. Expect greater pressure on the White House to end senseless wars like the one in Yemen and the Syrian civil war," said Evelyn Farkas, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Roundtable with Sudan’s minister of foreign affairs

By Africa Center

On November 7, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a roundtable discussion featuring H.E. Dr. ElDirdiri Mohamed Ahmed, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Sudan, on the state of US-Sudan relations, as well as recent efforts by his government to mediate peace in South Sudan and the Central African Republic. In his remarks, […]

United States and China to hold delayed security dialogue on November 9

By David A. Wemer

"The Pence speech read almost like a declaration of a new Cold War. The meeting may be an attempt to put a floor on the relationship," said Robert Manning, resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.