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Apr 7, 2020

Iranian prisoners left behind amid COVID chaos

By Mehrnaz Samimi

Even before the current crisis, the situation in prisons was becoming difficult to manage due to a poor economy and crippling US sanctions. Prisoners, regardless of their crimes or location of incarceration, are terrified of being forgotten or left without medical care. Overcrowding makes them susceptible to contracting COVID-19 and other diseases.

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Apr 6, 2020

GeoTech and smart partnerships: potential AI & China futures

By David Bray

The Atlantic Council is honored to partner with the Rockefeller Foundation via a grant focused on data and AI efforts by China around the world. We started these activities in the middle of 2019 and they were part of a bigger plan to launch the new Atlantic Council GeoTech Center in 2020 – focused on the geopolitics of new technologies and advances in data.

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Apr 6, 2020

Real Leaders Podcast: The Impact of Pandemics with Dr. David Bray

By Atlantic Council

Dr. David Bray, inaugural director for the Atlantic Council’s new GeoTech Center and former IT Chief for the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, joins the Real Leaders Podcast to talk about the response, nature, and impact of pandemics. He lead the program’s technology response during 9/11, the […]

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Apr 6, 2020

Bryza joins Azerbaijan’s CBC TV to discuss coronavirus in the Caspian region

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Apr 6, 2020

Cohen in Newsweek: The Covid-19 Disaster Has Been Decades in the Making—and Both Republicans and Democrats are to Blame

By Atlantic Council

Human history is replete with unanticipated catastrophic events that come like a bolt from the blue. During World War II, both Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came as strategic surprises. Then as now, intelligence warnings were ignored. Other shockers include the Egyptian and Syrian attack on […]

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Apr 6, 2020

Shaffer joins Bloomberg to discuss international oil markets

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Apr 6, 2020

The fifth wave

By Maria Muzalevskaya

“I didn’t betray my country. But I have more options here.” Russian artist Maria Muzalevskaya speaks to those who have left Putin's Russia.

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UkraineAlert

Apr 6, 2020

Коронавірусна криза відкриває можливість закінчити війну в Україні

By Уільям Б. Тейлор, Стівен Пайфер & Джон Хербст

Цю статтю було вперше опубліковано на NPR Усі три автори є колишніми послами США в Україні. Уільям Б. Тейлор є віце-президентом з питань стратегічної стабільності та безпеки в Американському інституті миру (United States Institute of Peace). Стівен Пайфер є старшим науковим співробітником програми ім. Уільяма Перрі в Стенфордському університеті. Джон Хербст є директором Євразійського центру […]

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Apr 6, 2020

Коронавирусный кризис открывает возможность закончить войну в Украине

By Уильям Б. Тейлор, Стивен Пайфер & Джон Хербст

Эта статья впервые была опубликована на NPR Все три автора — бывшие послы США в Украине. Уильям Б. Тейлор — вице-президент по вопросам стратегической стабильности и безопасности в Американском институте мира (United States Institute of Peace). Стивен Пайфер — старший научный сотрудник программы им. Уильяма Перри в Стэнфордском университете. Джон Хербст — директор Евразийского центра “Атлантического совета”. На фоне […]

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Apr 6, 2020

Yade in Le Monde: « Seule l’Afrique, avec sa jeunesse en perpétuel mouvement, apparaît en capacité de penser la destinée collective de l’humanité »

By Atlantic Council

In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, African countries have an opening to revive multilateralism. Read Senior Fellow Rama Yade's latest in Le Monde (en français) for her five-point program on how Africa can embrace this opportunity.

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