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

All impact stories

In the News

Mar 1, 2022

Kroenig in New York Magazine on Putin’s nuclear alert

By Atlantic Council

Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig highlights the unlikeliness that Russia will escalate to nuclear warfare.

Arms Control Crisis Management

In the News

Mar 1, 2022

Konaev in the CNBC on Russian disinformation campaigns

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Margarita Konaev discusses the effectiveness of Russian disinformation campaigns against their own citizens.

Conflict Disinformation

In the News

Mar 1, 2022

Polymeropoulos in NBC News on the risk of Americans in Russia

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Marc Polymeropoulos explains to NBC how American businesses in Russia are always at risk of harassments.

Conflict Rule of Law

In the News

Mar 1, 2022

Polymeropoulos in CNBC on information campaigns in Ukraine

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Marc Polymeropoulos explains to CNBC how the Ukrainians and the West are utilizing information in the 2022 Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Conflict Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Feb 28, 2022

Kroenig quoted in Politico on Russian nuclear threats

By Atlantic Council

On February 28, Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig was quoted in Politico discussing Russia’s “escalate to de-escalate” doctrine of backstopping conventional aggression with nuclear threats.

Arms Control China

In the News

Feb 28, 2022

Ashford at CFR: U.S.-Russia Relations—What’s at Stake?

By Atlantic Council

On February 28, Emma Ashford attended a CFR event as a panelist to discuss the broader implications of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “Ukraine and Russia have an extremely long history together. They have often been part of the same politik, they have not always been the same country. Many in Moscow (and I think Vladimir […]

Conflict Eastern Europe

In the News

Feb 28, 2022

Kroenig quoted in Fox News on US embassy evacuation

By Atlantic Council

On February 28, Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig was quoted in Fox News arguing that the decision to shut down the US embassy in Kiev was the “correct and prudent move.”

Arms Control China

In the News

Feb 28, 2022

Manning and Burrows in Foreign Policy: The US can’t afford a double Cold War

By Atlantic Council

On March 28, Mathew Burrows and Robert Manning published an article in Foreign Policy making the case that the United States cannot afford to have a double Cold War with China and Russia. “Fighting a two-front new cold war would mean far higher military expenditures, great uncertainty weighing down the global economy, and a diversion […]

China Eastern Europe

In the News

Feb 28, 2022

Kroenig in the Irish Times on Russia’s nuclear threat

By Atlantic Council

Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig explains that Putin's heightened nuclear alert is textbook Russian strategy and likely a bluff.

Arms Control Crisis Management

In the News

Feb 28, 2022

Polymeropoulos in Washington Monthly on US covert assistance to Ukraine

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Marc Polymeropoulos recommends to the Washington Monthly that the US covertly provide assistance to the Ukrainian resistance.

Conflict Rule of Law
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