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Captains of Industry Series

Jul 10, 2014

The Globalization of the Defense Industry

How should the defense industry adjust to greater economic globalization, with novel regional and functional challenges? How is the private sector going to manage decreasing national defense budgets while maintaining high levels of innovation, research, and development?

In the News

Jul 9, 2014

Benitez on Rasmussen’s Meeting with Obama

By Jorge Benitez

NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez joins Voice of America to discuss NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s meetings with President Obama: 

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 9, 2014

Ullman: Air Sea Battle

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for UPI on the Air-Sea Battle concept:

In the News

Jul 9, 2014

International Business Times on Rasmussen Address

By Atlantic Council

International Business Times cites the Atlantic Council for hosting an event with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen:

In the News

Jul 8, 2014

McClatchy: NATO Head Says Europeans Must Spend More on Defense

By Atlantic Council

McClatchy cites the Atlantic Council for hosting an event with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: 

In the News

Jul 8, 2014

AFP: NATO Looks at Combat Readiness After Russian ‘Aggression’

By Atlantic Council

Agence France-Presse cites the Atlantic Council for hosting an event with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen:

In the News

Jul 7, 2014

Defense News: Rasmussen to Push Readiness Action Plan at NATO Summit

By Atlantic Council

Defense News cites the Atlantic Council for hosting an event with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: 

In the News

Jul 5, 2014

Benitez: NATO Countries are Experiencing “Enlargement Exhaustion”

By Jorge Benitez

The Associated Press quotes NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez on NATO’s decision to rule out rapid expansion:

NATO Security & Defense

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

NATO in an Era of Global Competition

On June 25, the Atlantic Council and Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies held a capstone conference and report roll-out for the joint project: NATO in an Era of Global Competition. This eighteen-month effort, conducted jointly between the Atlantic Council and the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, aimed to define the role of NATO and the […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

NATO Head Policy Planner: Multi-Polarity is Full-Blown and Demands ‘Strategic Flexibility’

By Megan Poole

Fabrice Pothier Proposes a New Posture for NATO in an Era of Global Competition The arch of crisis from West Africa, through the Sahel, and across the Middle East to Central Asia is broadening and intensifying daily, according to a senior NATO official. Overlapping this arch of crisis is an arch of “unstable deterrence,” as […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

Agenda: Nato in an Era of Global Competition

NATO in an Era of Global Competition This event took place on June 25, 2014. This eighteen-month effort, a joint project of the Atlantic Council and the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, aims to define the role of NATO and the broader transatlantic community in an era of emerging security challenges, global power shifts, and new […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

Predicting the Next Crisis

At the Atlantic Council’s NATO in an Era of Global Competition conference, Jill Dougherty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and formerly of CNN, introduced a pressing question on the forefront of transatlantic policymakers’ minds: “What is the next crisis, and is NATO equipped to deal with it?” Juri Luik, Ambassador of Estonia to […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

Defending the Borders: Reassurance, Dissuasion, and Collective Defense

Leading experts on NATO’s traditional tools of reassurance, dissuasion, and deterrence gathered at NATO in an Era of Global Competition to address the implications of Russia’s continuing destabilization of Ukraine for European security and to assess the West’s response to this crisis.

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

Luncheon Conversation: The United States’ Future Role in European Security

The Atlantic Council’s NATO in an Era of Global Competition conference welcomed Derek Chollet, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs at the US Department of Defense, for a luncheon conversation on the United States’ Future Role in European Security. The conversation, moderated by the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Senior Fellow Ian […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

The Alliance and the Global Power Shift

Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman at the Munich Security Conference began the discussion of the Council’s NATO in an Era of Global Competition conference entitled “The Alliance and the Global Power” shift by noting that Russia is an “important neighbor” whom we can no longer consider a partner but that we will continuously have to put up […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

Keynote Remarks: NATO in an Era of Global Competition

The Ukraine crisis serves as a stark reminder that peace and stability in Europe cannot be taken for granted, according to Norwegian Minister of Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide, during her keynote address at the Atlantic Council’s NATO in an Era of Global Competition conference. On Russia, she explained, “NATO has a neighbor that has demonstrated […]

Event Recap

Jul 3, 2014

Opening Remarks: NATO in an Era of Global Competition

On June 25, General Brent Scowcroft, former US national security advisor and current opened the Atlantic Council’s conference on NATO in an Era of Global Competition with remarks on NATO’s continued importance and the need for the Alliance “to adjust to a world that is endlessly and rapidly changing, beset by forces we’ve never really […]

In the News

Jul 3, 2014

Ullman: NATO’s Weakest Flank and Softest Underbelly

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for UPI on reinforcing the so-called northern and southern flanks of NATO immediately adjacent to Russia and her Warsaw Pact allies:

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 2, 2014

Pavel on US Foreign Policy on the Line in Iraq

By Barry Pavel

McClatchy quotes VP and Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on why the ongoing crisis in Iraq presents the biggest challenge yet to President Obama’s foreign policy doctrine:

Iraq

In the News

Jul 1, 2014

Pavel and Kroenig: The Proliferation Challenge to a Nuclear Deal with Iran

By Barry Pavel, Matthew Kroenig

VP and Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel and Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig cowrite for the National Interest on what steps the P5+1 countries should take in order to achieve a comprehensive agreement with Iran while preventing significant proliferation risks attendant in such an agreement:

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