Analysis

New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2020

Shaping the global future together: the Council’s “Top fifteen hits” of 2019

By Frederick Kempe

We look back at the Atlantic Council’s top work of 2019 galvanizing US leadership alongside partners and allies to tackle the most pressing challenges confronting our nation and our world.

Africa Americas

Report

Dec 20, 2019

Leading the free world: How America benefits

By Paul D. Miller

Americans have been the unconscious beneficiaries of a world order that would not exist without them. Just as we take for granted electricity and plumbing, so to we take for granted the peace and prosperity of our system.

China Nationalism

New Atlanticist

Dec 20, 2019

Top ten risks of 2020

By Robert A. Manning, Mathew Burrows

2020 will likely bear more resemblance to the 1930s, as some of the developments which did not reach a denouement in the past year cross the finish line. Several simmering conflicts, symptoms of a global system under strain from US President Donald J. Trump’s “anti-globalist” America First doctrine, could well reach breakpoints in 2020. This may include a shift from the mere corroding of multilateral institutions and US alliances toward total dysfunction.

China International Norms
Candle in the Dark Destruction Cole

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Dec 10, 2019

A candle in the dark: US national security strategy for artificial intelligence

By Tate Nurkin, Stephen Rodriguez

AI is expected to have a transformational impact on the future of geopolitics, defense, and security. In this fluctuating environment, where the US is engaged in a high-stakes competition with is near-peer adversaries, and AI is enabling paradigm-shifting changes in public and private sector operations, how should the US respond?

Artificial Intelligence China

In the News

Dec 6, 2019

Social Democracy in search of its identity

By Atlantic Council

For the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Atlantic Council Resident Fellow Julian Mueller-Kaler takes a look at Germany’s SPD, Social Democracy’s search for its identity, and the related global rise of populism.

Economy & Business Elections

In the News

Dec 1, 2019

Lindsay Guest Editor and Op-Ed in Urban-X

By Atlantic Council

Civil Society Digital Policy

In the News

Nov 28, 2019

Tucker in Journal of Mechanical Design: 3D design using adversarial networks

By Atlantic Council

Technology & Innovation

In the News

Nov 22, 2019

The high price of impeachment

By Atlantic Council

For The Hill, Dr. Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and his Research Associate Julian Mueller-Kaler elaborate on the persistency of populist discourse, the establishment’s failure to tackle the phenomenon successfully, and the political price of impeachment.

Corruption Democratic Transitions

In the News

Nov 21, 2019

Raidt in US Chamber of Commerce: Only in America

By Atlantic Council

Economy & Business Education

In the News

Nov 11, 2019

Tucker in Journal of Mechanical Design: The use of VR to teach manufacturing

By Atlantic Council

Education Technology & Innovation

Events