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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

Feb 1, 2021

Nurkin’s Deftech Scan report released by Armasuisse

By Atlantic Council

On February 1 Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Tate Nurkin published the latest issue of Deftech Scan, focused specifically on the “new domains of conflict.”

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Timely Commentary & Analysis

Feb 1, 2021

Brzezinski in Foreign Policy Research Institute: How NATO manages the “bear” and the “dragon”

By Ian Brzezinski

Ian Brzezinski interviewed in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s quarterly journal on how the NATO Alliance can balance competition with China and Russia.

China Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Jan 31, 2021

Ashford quoted in the New York Times: As Biden plans global democracy summit, skeptics say: heal thyself first

By Atlantic Council

On January 20, Emma Ashford was quoted in Michael Crowley’s article in the New York Times entitled “As Biden plans global democracy summit, skeptics say: heal thyself first” on the Biden administration’s plans for a democracy summit. “Washington’s foreign-policy elites remain committed to the preservation of a three-decade foreign policy aimed at reshaping the world […]

Politics & Diplomacy United States and Canada

In the News

Jan 28, 2021

Kroenig, Massa write op-ed in The Hill on Sec. Austin and nuclear modernization

By Atlantic Council

On January 28, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Deputy Director Matthew Kroenig and Forward Defense Assistant Director Mark J. Massa wrote an op-ed on nuclear modernization for The Hill. In this article, Kroenig and Massa urge recently confirmed Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to commit to continuing the bipartisan nuclear modernization program, including the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD).

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

In the News

Jan 28, 2021

Politico features new Atlantic Council China strategy by anonymous author

By Atlantic Council

On January 28, Politico published a column by the anonymous author of a new Atlantic Council Strategy Paper that analyzes China and develops a strategy for addressing the challenges it presents to the United States. The full paper can be found here.

China Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Jan 27, 2021

Warrick quoted by Wall Street Journal on latest DHS bulletin

By Atlantic Council

On January 27, Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Thomas Warrick was quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “DHS issues its first bulletin for domestic extremists.”

Extremism National Security

In the News

Jan 27, 2021

Manning in Foreign Policy: Beijing’s welcome gift to Biden: more threats and tensions

By Atlantic Council

On January 27, Robert Manning co-authorded an article Patrick Cronin entitled “Beijing’s Welcome Gift to Biden: More Threats and Tensions” in Foreign Policy. The article makes the point that recent actions by China pose a challenge to any attempt to reset relations and argues that the new coast guard law necessitates a clear response from […]

Americas China

Article

Jan 27, 2021

Manning in Foreign Policy: Beijing’s welcome gift to Biden: More threats and tensions

By Robert A. Manning

On January 27, 2021, Foreign Policy published an article by Robert Manning “Beijing’s Welcome Gift to Biden: More Threats and Tensions.”

China English

In the News

Jan 25, 2021

Busch in The Hill: Biden’s trade ‘reset’ depends on what happens with trade promotion authority

By Marc L. Busch

Marc Busch writes that Biden must request and retain a trade promotion authority if he is to solve long-term trade issues like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a US-UK deal, and the Airbus-Boeing dispute.

Economy & Business Political Reform

In the News

Jan 24, 2021

Gen. Cartwright quoted in New York Times on great-power competition in space

By Atlantic Council

On January 24, Atlantic Council Board Director and former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen James E. Cartwright, USMC (Ret.) was quoted in a New York Times article titled “How space became the next ‘great power’ contest between the US and China.” The article concludes that President Biden must view the Chinese anti-satellite threat in space as one of the most pressing national security issues of his administration.

China Russia
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