COVID-19 is increasing strategic uncertainty in Southeast Asia

New Atlanticist Mar 18, 2025

The Gaza cease-fire is over. What’s next from Israel, Hamas, and the US?

By Atlantic Council experts

In the early hours of March 18, Israel launched air strikes on Gaza, ending the two-month cease-fire. Atlantic Council experts answer pressing questions about the resumed conflict.
Conflict Israel
COVID-19 is increasing strategic uncertainty in Southeast Asia

New Atlanticist Mar 17, 2025

Enough carrots for Putin. For better negotiations, serve ‘maximum pressure’ instead.

By Benjamin L. Schmitt, Richard L. Morningstar, and Daniel Fried

Since Russia appears content for negotiations to move slowly, the Trump administration should turn up the pressure with new sanctions.
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COVID-19 is increasing strategic uncertainty in Southeast Asia

Issue Brief Mar 13, 2025

Present without impact? How the Middle East perceives China’s diplomatic engagement

By Jonathan Fulton

Despite economic advancements and high-profile diplomatic engagements, China’s influence remains largely economic rather than political, Jonathan Fulton argues.
China Economy & Business

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New Atlanticist

May 8, 2020

COVID-19 is increasing strategic uncertainty in Southeast Asia

By Adam Schwarz

Nothing that’s happened on COVID-19 yet—including China’s much commented-on ‘mask diplomacy’—is going to sway opinions or foreign policy alignments in Southeast Asia in fundamental ways. But that could change depending on what steps China and the United States take as their relationship moves—as it now seems likely to do—in a sharper, more antagonistic direction in the months and years to come.

Coronavirus East Asia

MENASource

May 8, 2020

Palestinians fight skepticism over whether they can stop annexation

By Jonathan Ferziger

Palestinians are scrambling to galvanize international opposition to Israel's annexation of some thirty percent of the West Bank while battling skepticism that they can do anything to stop it.

Israel Middle East

MENASource

May 8, 2020

The crumbling Haftar illusion: Last call for the international community?

By Karim Mezran and Dario Cristiani

The international community should seize the moment to do everything to stop Haftar’s dictatorial regime.

Libya North Africa

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2020

V-E Day at 75: What it brought and what’s next

By Daniel Fried

From V-E Day seventy-five years ago, the United States put a new kind of grand strategy into practice: we understood that, ultimately, our interests advanced with our democratic values, and that our prosperity depended on the prosperity of other nations. We fashioned a global system on that basis. For all its shortcomings, it’s better than the competition. The trick now is to use those core principles to meet the next seventy-five years.

Politics & Diplomacy United States and Canada

In the News

May 7, 2020

Nooruddin joins Caveat to discuss what makes a good democracy

By Atlantic Council

Democratic Transitions Elections

In the News

May 7, 2020

Ullman in US Naval Institute: There is now only one path to 355 ships

By Harlan Ullman

Defense Policy Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

May 7, 2020

Ghori-Ahmad joins the podcast All Encompassing to discuss Harvard University Professor Joseph Nye’s book, “Do morals matter? Presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump.”

By Atlantic Council

International Norms Political Reform

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2020

Nicaragua’s response to COVID-19 endangers not only its own people, but also its neighbors

By Maria Fernanda Perez Arguello and Isabel Kennon

Nicaragua’s reckless response to COVID-19 puts an already fragile Central America at risk and should worry the international community. In the fight against this global pandemic, Nicaragua and Costa Rica provide a clear example of how one country’s flawed response to the virus can drastically impact its neighboring countries

Coronavirus Democratic Transitions

In the News

May 7, 2020

Akhtar as a webinar moderator at the University of Lahore Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research: COVID-19 | Kashmir in the Age of Detention: What Changes for the Kashmiris pre and post-Pandemic?

By Atlantic Council

Coronavirus Human Rights

New Atlanticist

May 7, 2020

After months of gridlock, Iraq gets a new government

By Atlantic Council

Iraq’s months-long quest to form a national government reached a major milestone on May 6 when a partial government under new prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was approved by lawmakers. Al-Kadhimi—who previously served as Iraq’s national intelligence chief—was nominated by Iraqi President Barham Salih on April 9 after two previous nominees failed to form a government. Although fifteen of the major cabinet posts were approved by the parliament, several others have not yet been confirmed—including foreign affairs, justice, oil, agriculture, and trade—due to failure to reach an agreement between major parties on their allocation.

Democratic Transitions Iraq
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Leon Leskovec

Head of Cabinet for Karlo Ressler, Member of the European Parliament

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Laura Updegrove

Nonresident Senior Fellow, GeoStrategy Initiative

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Nonresident senior fellow

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Director of Tribal and Native Affairs, Department of Treasury

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