Technology & Innovation

The rapid pace of technological change can both provide governments and individuals with new tools to achieve policy goals, while also presenting societies with new economic, political, and social challenges. The harnessing of new technologies can unlock new economic growth, enhance inclusivity and equity, and increase citizens’ quality of life, but their potentially damaging side effects must also be managed. In an era of growing geopolitical and economic competition, governments must also focus on how to ensure their societies retain a technological edge, and produce new innovative products and solutions to drive growth.

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Geers: Cyber War in Perspective

Dispatches
Mar 13, 2026

Chinese narratives around Anthropic highlight contradictions for the US

By
Kenton Thibaut

Commentators in Chinese state media outlets have seized on the dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon to make larger critiques of US tech governance.

China
Defense Technologies

Geers: Cyber War in Perspective

UkraineAlert
Mar 12, 2026

Iran war highlights Ukraine’s rapid rise to drone superpower status

By
David Kirichenko

The Iran war has sparked a sudden surge in international demand for Kyiv’s unique anti-drone expertise and highlighted Ukraine’s rapid emergence as one of the world’s leading drone warfare superpowers, writes David Kirichenko.

Conflict
Defense Technologies

Geers: Cyber War in Perspective

GeoTech Cues
Feb 18, 2026

To compete with China in space, the US must form more equitable commercial partnerships with African nations

By
Maureen Farrell and Matt Petit

To counter China’s space diplomacy efforts, the United States must make creative investments across multiple sectors of African economies.

Africa
National Security

The Atlantic Council Technology Programs comprises five existing efforts—the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), the GeoTech Center, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, the Democracy + Tech Initiative, and the Capacity Building Initiative. These operations work together to address the geopolitical implications of technology and provide policymakers and global stakeholders necessary research, insights, and convenings to address challenges around global technology and ensure its responsible advancement.

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In the News

Dec 7, 2015

Geers: Cyber War in Perspective

By Kenneth Geers

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Kenneth Geers edited and introduced Cyber War in Perspective, a new collection of essays published by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence that also includes an essay from Cyber Statecraft Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Jay Healey: Read the full book here.

Cybersecurity NATO

In the News

Nov 18, 2015

Defense News Covers the Space Race in Business

By Atlantic Council

Defense News covers the Atlantic Council’s event “The Space Race in Business,” which highlighted how the Pentagon needs to adapt its acquisition policies to maximize its capabilities in space:

Space Technology & Innovation

In the News

Nov 14, 2015

The Lawfare Podcast Features John Carlin at the Atlantic Council

By Atlantic Council

The Lawfare Podcast features Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin’s remarks from an Atlantic Council event on national security and the cyber threat landscape:

Cybersecurity National Security

Defense Industrialist

Nov 13, 2015

The LRS-B and nukes

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

Does the Long-Range Strike Bomber need nuclear capability, and does nuclear capability need the LRS-B? Recapitalizing the air-breathing segment of the American nuclear triad has generally not been the US Air Force’s first argument for developing its new Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). Sustaining a global capacity for massive, repeated, marginally economical surgical strikes has long been the […]

Defense Policy Drones

New Atlanticist

Nov 12, 2015

Crowdsourcing Terrorism

By Ashish Kumar Sen

ISIS intent on expanding online abilities to conduct cyber attacks, says US official Extremist groups are using social media to “crowdsource” terrorism and are intent on developing the ability to conduct crippling cyber attacks on their enemies, a senior Justice Department official said at the Atlantic Council on Nov. 10. “[Terrorist groups] have the intent […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Event Recap

Nov 10, 2015

National Security and the Cyber Threat Landscape

By Andrew Alvarado

At a talk hosted at the Atlantic Council on November 10, 2015, the Hon. John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the US Department of Justice, discussed the current national security threat landscape and recent trends in the US government's approach to disrupting cyber threats. The discussion was moderated by Benjamin Wittes, Editor in Chief at Lawfare.

Cybersecurity
Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt, Feb. 13, 2015

NATOSource

Oct 27, 2015

Carl Bildt Warns of Continuous Cyber Conflict

By Carl Bildt, Project Syndicate

In a way, we are already in a low-level continuous conflict in cyberspace.

China Cybersecurity
Sierra class Russian sub, June 1, 1994

NATOSource

Oct 26, 2015

Russian Ships Near Data Cables Are Too Close for US Comfort

By David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, New York Times

Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns among some American military and intelligence officials that the Russians might be planning to attack those lines in times of tension or conflict.

Cybersecurity NATO

In the News

Oct 24, 2015

Healey on Risk Nexus Report

By Jason Healey

The Boston Globe quotes Cyber Statecraft Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Jason Healey on the costs and benefits of the internet and data as reported in the joint Atlantic Council and Zurich Insurance Group study, Risk Nexus: Beyond Data Breaches: Global Interconnections of Cyber Risk:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Oct 23, 2015

Taking on Cyber Threats Together

By Alejandro Alvarez

Increased cooperation between the public and private sector is essential to tackle growing issues with big data security, experts and analysts agreed at a symposium on big data and cybersecurity on Oct. 22 at the Atlantic Council. The all-day event, “Big Data, Bad Actors,” was jointly produced by the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on […]

Cybersecurity National Security
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Artificial-Intelligence and Extended-Reality Lead, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

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Software Architect, Bridgewater Associates

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Dana L. Banks

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Nitansha Bansal

Associate Director

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David Bargueño

Deputy Counselor for Environment, Science, Technology, and Health, US Embassy Brazil, United States Department of State

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Tyson Barker

Nonresident Senior Fellow

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