Transcript: A Conversation with H.E. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

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After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

By David Daoud

Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.
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Transcript: A Conversation with H.E. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

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How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

By Adam Kozloski

To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.
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Transcript: A Conversation with H.E. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

UkraineAlert Aug 21, 2024

Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

By Peter Dickinson

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Aug 20, 2020

Transcript: A Conversation with H.E. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

By Atlantic Council

One week after the UAE-US-Israeli joint statement announcing that the UAE and Israel have normalized relations, H.E. Anwar Gargash discusses how the two countries reached this historic agreement and explore the deal’s regional implications.

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Aug 20, 2020

Wieslander in EURACTIV: With the US absent, smaller powers lead the way in support for Belarus
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Aug 19, 2020

Potential trouble ahead: predictions from 2010 now are real in 2020

By David Bray

In 2010, the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center's Director Dr. David Bray provided an unclassified briefing to the U.S. national security and defense communities on "Why Future Policy Leaders Will Need to Know Science, Technology, Global Business, and National Security". Now, 10 years later, it is worth revisiting those slides - especially in light that those slides raised concerns about the use of small commercial drones and do-it-yourself drones back then and recently we have seen elevated concerns about what these could do to commercial airplanes in flight.

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Aug 19, 2020

Manning interview on podcast: China in the Middle East

By Atlantic Council

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Aug 19, 2020

Hudson quoted in the Hill on efforts by families of 9/11 victims to block Sudan’s delisting as a State Sponsor of Terrorism

By Atlantic Council

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Aug 19, 2020

The ‘Digital Ocean’ as a model for innovation in the perfect storm

By Keit Pentus-Rosimannus and Michael D. Brasseur

By capitalizing on opportunities such as the ‘Digital Ocean’ NATO can help provide solutions to the megatrends that will define this century, while fulfilling its core mission of providing security to its nearly one billion citizens.

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Aug 19, 2020

Event recap | A fireside chat about the future of space

By Henry Westerman

On Wednesday, July 29, the Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center hosted Ms. Teresa Carlson, Vice President at AWS's Worldwide Public Sector, and United States Representative Will Hurd of the 23rd District of Texas.

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BelarusAlert

Aug 18, 2020

Belarus urgently needs European mediation

By Anders Åslund

Unprecedented pro-democracy protests have swept Belarus since a deeply flawed August 9 election. With dictator Lukashenka stripped of all legitimacy, only international mediation can help resolve the crisis.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 18, 2020

Pakistan races to avoid financial watchdog blacklist

By Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

The Pakistani Senate is racing to approve multiple bills to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing—and fulfill a twenty-seven-point plan from global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF). With thirteen remaining conditions and an eye on the mid-October deadline, Pakistan is hoping to avoid a demotion from the FATF’s grey list to the blacklist, joining countries such as Iran and North Korea.

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Aug 18, 2020

Sparrow discusses General Brent Scowcroft’s legacy on DefAero podcast

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