Scowcroft Center Commentary & Analysis

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Jul 22, 2017

Jamie Metzl: Why Korean Reunification is in China’s Strategic National Interest

By Jamie Metzl

“North Korea’s July 4 launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile has highlighted once again both the extent to which Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program and aggressive behavior is destabilizing the Asia Pacific region and the relative impotence of efforts to date designed to respond. Although North Korean nuclear weapons seem primarily designed to ensure regime survival, […]

Article

Jul 12, 2017

Europe—Key Partnership for American Prosperity

By Andrea Montanino and Marie Kasperek

Europe—Key Partnership for American Prosperity recommends that, to best serve American interests, President Trump should encourage a stronger, more integrated Europe. Doing so will ensure more economic growth, geostrategic stability, and global leadership for both the United States and Europe. These recommendations come in advance of the President’s visit to Paris to meet with French President Macron […]

Article

Jun 27, 2017

Rolling back the growing North Korean threat

By Barry Pavel and Robert A. Manning

Rolling Back the Growing North Korean Threat recommends President Trump adopt a policy of “high pressure containment” to convince the North Korean leadership that, unless it halts its nuclear weapons programs and restarts diplomacy to eliminate them, it will have neither a viable economy nor future. These recommendations come in advance of South Korean President […]

Korea

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Jun 27, 2017

Big Data: A Twenty-First Century Arms Race

By Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative

We are living in a world awash in data. Accelerated interconnectivity, driven by the proliferation of internet-connected devices, has led to an explosion of data—big data. A race is now underway to develop new technologies and implement innovative methods that can handle the volume, variety, velocity, and veracity of big data and apply it smartly […]

Article

Jun 22, 2017

An Historic Opportunity to Partner with India

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

The Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Atlantic Council Memos to the President series aims at providing distinct, bold recommendations to President Donald Trump for the most pressing items on his agenda. An Historic Opportunity to Partner with India recommends President Trump extend three vital capabilities to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington, DC on June 25 […]

Video

Jun 22, 2017

Memos to the President: PM Modi’s Visit

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Jun 14, 2017

The Retreat of Western Liberalism: A Fireside Chat with Edward Luce

By Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative

In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Edward Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of Western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy—of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a deeply alarming symptom. Luce argues that the erosion of middle-class incomes has eaten away at liberal democratic consensus, resulting in […]

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Jun 9, 2017

Cross-Strait Series: The Next US-Taiwan Arms Sales

By Maxwell Nitto

The Trump administration is said to be drafting a new arms package for Taiwan that could include advanced rocket systems and anti-ship missiles. The package is expected to be significantly larger than one that was shelved at the end of the Obama administration, US officials told Reuters on the eve of a visit to Beijing […]

Indo-Pacific

Commanders Series

May 4, 2017

Commanders Series Event with Chief of Staff of the Army General Mark Milley

By Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative

On May 4, the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security hosted Chief of Staff of the Army General Mark Milley at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square in downtown Washington DC. Dr. Nora Bensahel interviewed General Milley after his opening statements and a welcome by former Secretary of the Army John […]

Event Recap

Apr 24, 2017

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Multilateralism in the 21st Century

By Chloe Hanley

On April 14, 2017 the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a conversation with the honorable Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The discussion focused on his vision for the development of the AIIB, its approach to providing financing for Asian infrastructure, and the AIIB’s internal governance process, […]

Indo-Pacific
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