Scowcroft Center Commentary, Analysis, & Reports

Global Trends 2030: The Changing Nature of Warfare

By Jason Harmala

Experts discuss the interaction of developing trends with warfare strategies and planning, taking into consideration the evolving nature of cyberspace and the treats it invites. Dr. Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS NV Michèle Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Moderated by Steven Grundman, M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges, […]

Global Trends 2030: The Individual vs. The State: Who Will Have the Upper Hand in 2030?

By Jason Harmala

Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al-Masry Al-Youm Newspaper Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook Moderated by Dr. Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Social media and its impacts on individual empowerment, security, information […]

Global Trends 2030: The Atlantic Council’s US Strategy in a Post-Western World

By Jason Harmala

Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC General James L. Jones, Jr., Founder and President, Jones Group International; Chairman, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council James B. Steinberg, Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University  Moderated by Barry Pavel, Director, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council  The final panel of […]

Global Trends 2030: Will the US Be Able to Lead in a Post-Western World

Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Dr. Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution  Dr. Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El País  Moderated by Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times  This panel addressed the 2012 Global Trends conference’s core question by featuring diverse opinions on how the West must adapt to challenges of the […]

Global Trends 2030: Urban World 2030

By Jason Harmala

William Cobbett, Manager, Cities Alliance, The World Bank Dr. Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State  H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore  Moderated by Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Center for Government, McKinsey & Co.

Global Trends 2030: Luncheon with Brent Scowcroft

By Jason Harmala

Luncheon KeynoteConversation with Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush Moderated by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council The conversation with Lieutenant General Scowcroft focused on the core idea underlying the Global Trends 2030 report, the issue of whether or not the world is at another “tipping […]

Early Foreign Policy Signs from Georgia Seem Positive

By Michael Cecire and Laura Linderman

Following recent landmark elections, Georgia’s new government has an opportunity to build on the success of the country’s first constitutional transfer of power. With a host of challenges ahead, the United States can and should leverage its strategic partnership with Georgia to help advance the country’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations, consolidate democratic institutions and practices, and support […]

Global trends 2030: alternative worlds

By National Intelligence Council

The Global Trends project engages expertise from outside government on factors of such as globalization, demography and the environment, producing a forward-looking document to aid policymakers in their long term planning on key issues of worldwide importance.

Global Trends 2030: The NIC’s Four Alternative Scenarios for 2030

By Jason Harmala

Presenter: Dr. Mathew J. Burrows, Counselor, US National Intelligence Council; Principal Drafter, Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds Keynote Response: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Moderated by David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post This panel focused on presenting the megatrends, game-changers, and four potential future scenarios that the NIC identified in the Global Trends 2030: […]

Global Trends 2030: Emerging Technologies that Could Change Our Future

By Jason Harmala

General James E. Cartwright, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, SAS Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Moderated by Mariette DiChristina, […]

Global Trends 2030: US Leadership in a Post-Western World

By Rachel Weatherly

The Atlantic Council’s Strategic Foresight Initiative hosted more than 200 people at the Global Trends 2030: US Leadership in a Post-Western World conference held over two days at the Newseum on December 10 and 11, 2012.

It Is High Time for Congress to Focus on the ‘O’ in NATO

By Sarwar Kashmeri

As the U.S. Congress begins to trim the U.S. defense budget it should re-examine the structure of NATO and insist that the alliance’s bureaucracy reflect today’s geopolitical realities, not those prevailing at the end of World War II.

Drone Strike on Democracy

By James Joyner

As a theoretical matter, remotely piloted vehicles are simply a tool of warfare, morally indistinguishable from manned aircraft. The more efficiently the United States can target and kill its enemies, the better. And drones are cheaper to operate, carry far less risk for American military personnel, and make it easier to collect operational intelligence than their manned […]

How to Build Trust Between India and Pakistan

By Ishrat Husain and Kavita N. Ramdas

This week, a delegation consisting of heads of leading Pakistani business houses are visiting India.

Stifling Critical Voices in Southeast Europe

By Rena Linden

On November 24, a Croatian journalist revealed that Milorad Dodik, the president of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska, offered him money to cover up Dodik’s connection to the Hypo Alpe Adria Banka corruption scandal.