Security & Defense

Why the Quad summit was a strategic success

By Ash Jain

While its specific outcomes may have been relatively modest, the summit successfully laid the foundation to advance three strategic US goals: countering China, aligning India, and revitalizing alliances.

Experts react: The key takeaways from the Erdoğan-Putin meeting

By Atlantic Council IN TURKEY

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in-person in Sochi, Russia for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Atlantic Council experts give their take on the outcome.

Reimagining a just society pt. 6: Our planetary condominium

By Carol Dumaine

Carol Dumaine's latest in a blog post series on "Reimagining a Just Society" recalls the tragic condo collapse in Florida last June and asks whether the commons elements of a typical condominium association suggest any parallels for understanding "global commons" or public goods in an age of pandemics, climate change and AI.

Haddad in the Financial Times: Europe must wean itself off US defence to reset transatlantic relations

"American priorities are shifting under Joe Biden and the quicker the EU boosts its own ‘strategic autonomy’ the better," writes Benjamin Haddad in the Financial Times.