Security & Defense

Nasr in Foreign Affairs: Iran Nuclear Talks Likely to Resume After Biden’s Mideast Trip

By Atlantic Council

Sakhi in The Hill: The Taliban has failed to gain legitimacy — what can be done?

By Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council delegation arrives in Taiwan

On July 18, Taiwan Today and Taiwan News featured Atlantic Council delegates Mark Esper, former US Secretary of Defense, Stefano Stefanini, former Permanent Representative of Italy to NATO, and Barry Pavel, Senior Vice President and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), who regard Secretary […]

Atlantic Council delegation to visit Taiwan

On July 18, Focus Taiwan featured Atlantic Council delegates Mark Esper, former US Secretary of Defense, Stefano Stefanini, former Permanent Representative of Italy to NATO, and Barry Pavel, Senior Vice President and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. The delegation will meet with senior government officials, think tanks, and business […]

Pavel in New Voice of Ukraine on war scenarios

By Atlantic Council

Barry Pavel revisits his March forecasts for how the war in Ukraine might end.

Quirk in The National Interest on how democracies can counter authoritarian aggression

On July 11, Scowcroft Center nonresident senior fellow Patrick Quirk and International Republican Institute (IRI) president Daniel Twining published Fighting Back: How Democracies Can Check Authoritarian Aggression in the National Interest. In the piece, they assert that the democratic world must take action and execute a long-term and sustainable campaign against transnational authoritarianism that the […]

Vali Nasr on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, GPS: Putin turns to Iran

By Atlantic Council