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In the News

Mar 31, 2015

Tyson: Focus on Conventional Forces, Not Spec Ops

By Michael Tyson

Brent Scowcroft Center Marine Corps Senior Fellow Michael Tyson cowrites for DefenseNews on the role conventional forces should play in future conflicts:

In the News

Mar 31, 2015

Government Health IT Highlights Cyber Statecraft Initiative Report

Government Health IT highlights a report by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative about the growing risk of security breaches in networked healthcare devices:

In the News

Mar 27, 2015

Meservey and Ward: Keep Boko Haram on the Run

By Joshua Meservey and Alex Ward

Africa Center Assistant Director Joshua Meservey and Brent Scowcroft Center Assistant Director Alex Ward write for US News and World Report on the importance of the Nigerian government continuing the fight against Boko Haram after Saturday’s presidential election:

Nigeria Politics & Diplomacy

Event Recap

Mar 27, 2015

US-German Next Generation Project Launched

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The US-German Next Generation Project, a project the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security launched in February 2015 to strengthen the transatlantic partnership through stronger US-German ties, hosted an opening reception on March 25. The event provided an opportunity to introduce the twelve young American and German Next Generation Fellows, who will be at the […]

Europe & Eurasia Germany

In the News

Mar 27, 2015

Manning on Yemen and Oil Prices

By Robert Manning

Anadolu Agency’s Energy News Terminal quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning on the crisis in Yemen and how it could affect oil prices:

Yemen

Report

Mar 26, 2015

Managing Differences on European Security in 2015

By Atlantic Council, Russian International Affairs Council and the European Leadership Network

This report is the result of a series of brainstorming sessions that took place between the summer of 2013 and the winter of 2014-2015, and between American, Russian, and European experts. The teams were led by Ellen Tauscher, the Vice Chair of the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and the former US […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

New Atlanticist

Mar 26, 2015

NATO Chief Urges Increase in Military Spending to Confront Growing Security Threats

By Larry Luxner

Europe’s belt-tightening on defense at a time when Russia and China have ramped up military spending endangers NATO, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said March 25. “While we have been cutting our defense budgets, others have invested heavily,” Stoltenberg said in his keynote address at the NATO Allied Command Transformation seminar. The Atlantic Council’s […]

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 25, 2015

Metzl on Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CNN to discuss Lee Kuan Yew’s political and economic legacy:

Issue Brief

Mar 24, 2015

ISIS war game II: The escalation challenge

By Bilal Y. Saab and Michael Tyson

In September 2014, Bilal Y. Saab, Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft on International Security, and Michael S. Tyson, Marine Corps Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center, predicted in a simulation exercise (for results, see “ISIS War Game: The Coming Stalemate“) conducted at the Scowcroft Center’s Middle East […]

Middle East Security & Defense

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

Pavel and Saab: Reassuring America’s Gulf Arab Partners

By Pavel and Saab

VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab write for the National Interest on how a nuclear deal with Iran would affect US policy toward the Arab Gulf states:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

USNI News Highlights Atlantic Council Report on US Policy in the Gulf

By Pavel and Saab

USNI News highlights an Atlantic Council report authored by VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab on US military posture in the Persian Gulf:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

Ward: Battleground Metropolis: The Future of Urban Warfare

By Alex Ward

Brent Scowcroft Center Assistant Director Alex Ward writes for the National Interest on how the population shift to urban centers will affect the future of warfare:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

Metzl on China’s Factory Sector Falling

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins Bloomberg to discuss the increase in the Chinese stock market and the need for economic reform:

China

New Atlanticist

Mar 23, 2015

Artful Balance: US Must Consider Defense Pact with Arab Gulf States, Says Atlantic Council Report

By Larry Luxner

The Pentagon must consider a formal defense treaty with its Arab Gulf allies in light of Iran’s ongoing attempts to destabilize the region politically, according to a new Atlantic Council report. “While we have very effective forces and a strategy guiding those forces, it’s our sense that there’s enough going on in the world that […]

In the News

Mar 23, 2015

Brzezinski on the Breakdown of Relations Between Moscow and the West

By Ian Brzezinski

The Polish Institute of International Affairs quotes  Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on how Russia’s withdrawal from the Conventional Forces Europe treaty demonstrates a further breakdown in relations between Moscow and the West:

Russia

Regional Security Initiative

Mar 23, 2015

Artful balance: The future of US defense strategy and force posture in the Gulf

By Bilal Y. Saab and Barry Pavel

A strategic review of US defense strategy and force posture in the Gulf is long overdue. In Artful Balance: Future US Defense Strategy and Force Posture in the Gulf, Bilal Y. Saab, Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and Barry Pavel, Vice President and […]

Maritime Security Middle East

In the News

Mar 22, 2015

Foreign Affairs on Gaming ISIS

By Atlantic Council

Foreign Affairs offers insight on the Obama administration’s ISIS strategy from a recent war game hosted in conjunction with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security:

In the News

Mar 22, 2015

Manning: Washington Wrong but Questions Remain over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the Global Times on China’s efforts to create an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and US response:

China

Event Recap

Mar 20, 2015

Cross-Straits Series: Implications of The Emerging Anti-Access and Area Denial (A2/AD) Capabilities in the Asia-Pacific

By Asia Security Initiative

On March 17, Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative in the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a Cross-Straits Series event on the implications of the emerging anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) capabilities in the Asia-Pacific. This event featured Ms. Christel Fonzo-Eberhard, Manager of Monitor 360; Ms. Yuki Tatsumi, Senior Associate of the East Asia […]

Transcript

Mar 20, 2015

Transcripts: Implications of the Emerging Anti-Access and Area Denial (A2/AD) Capabilities in the Asia-Pacific

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Atlantic Council Cross-Straits Series: Implications of the Emerging Anti-Access and Area Denial (A2/AD) Capabilities in the Asia-Pacific Speakers: Christel Fonzo-Eberhard, Manager, Monitor 360 Yuki Tatsumi, Senior Associate, East Asia Program, Stimson Center Roger Cliff, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council Introduction: Barry Pavel, Vice President and Director, Brent Scowcroft Center […]

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