Insight & Impact

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Describe the kind of content you are highlighting here, why you are highlighting, and what it says about the work your program focuses on and how it makes an impact in the real world. Below, select three top pieces of commentary & analysis to feature from the past days or weeks. Update monthly via board process with Graeme Cranston-Cuebas and Vriddhi Sujan.

Event Recap Jul 30, 2019

Chile Against Corruption: What Can the Region Learn?

By Guillermo Garcia Montenegro

To launch the last of a series of spotlights on anti-corruption, the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center hosted a conference call to discuss Chile’s successes and steps countries can take to revitalize regulatory frameworks. Authored by Former Minister of National Women’s Affairs of Chile and Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Non-Resident Senior Fellow Laura Albornoz […]
Brazil Latin America
Insight & Impact

Report Jan 24, 2019

Does money grow on trees? Restoration financing in Southeast Asia

By Prajwal Baral, Mikkel Larsen, Matthew Archer, PhD

Given its unique role as both a potential source of emissions—as well as storage—for carbon, the land use sector may play a crucial role in the world’s success or failure in avoiding dangerous levels of climate change over this century. Nowhere is the pivotal role of land use more apparent than in tropical forests.
Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

Transcript Jul 18, 2019

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte: Stronger Together Than Apart

Stronger together than apart Speech by Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte  Atlantic Council Washington, DC July 18, 2019
European Union International Organizations

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In the News

May 23, 2015

Grundman on Move to Shift Pentagon’s Acquisition Authority

By Steven Grundman

Defense News quotes M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman on a new push by Senator John McCain to increase the armed services’ authorities to manage major weapon programs, potentially weakening the power of the Pentagon’s top acquisition office:

In the News

May 23, 2015

Grundman on European UAV Development

By Steven Grundman

Defense News quotes M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman on European hopes of developing unmanned aerial vehicles to gain sovereignty and compete with American and Israeli imports:

In the News

May 22, 2015

Burrows and Stephan: Has the West Given Up on Democracy?

By Burrows and Stephan

Strategic Foresight Initiative Director Mathew Burrows and Strategic Foresight Initiative Nonresident Senior Fellow Maria J. Stephan write for open Democracy on the rise of authoritarianism and the decline of democracy:

In the News

May 21, 2015

Manning: Military Exercise Speaks to Debate on Region’s Future

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the Global Times on China’s activities in the South China Sea and the US response:

China

In the News

May 21, 2015

Manning: America’s ‘China Consensus’ Implodes

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for The National Interest on the rethinking of US policy toward China:

China

In the News

May 20, 2015

DecodeDC Covers Atlantic Council Google Hangout on DOD’s Silicon Valley Outreach

By Atlantic Council

DecodeDC covers an Atlantic Council google hangout hosted by the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security on Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s outreach to Silicon Valley:

In the News

May 20, 2015

Military.com Highlights Atlantic Council Commanders Series Event

By Atlantic Council

Military.com covers an event featuring John F. Kelly, Commander of US Southern Command, and his comments on the ISIS takeover of Ramadi:

In the News

May 17, 2015

Nordenman: Maersk Tigris: A Warning Bell for Our Contested Maritime Century

By Magnus Nordenman

Brent Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Magnus Nordenman writes for Defense One on why competition between established and emerging powers will be expressed at sea in the 21st century:

In the News

May 15, 2015

Bloomberg Highlights Atlantic Council Event on the Gulf Summit at Camp David

By Atlantic Council

Bloomberg covers an Atlantic Council conference call assessing the outcomes of the Gulf summit at Camp David:

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

May 15, 2015

Grundman on Pentagon Outreach to Silicon Valley

By Steven Grundman

M.A. and George Lund Fellow for Emerging Defense Challenges Steven Grundman speaks with Federal News Radio on the Department of Defense’s outreach efforts to Silicon Valley: Listen to the broadcast here.

Defense Industry Security & Defense
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