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In the News

Jul 8, 2015

The Lead with Jake Tapper features Sen. Graham at the Atlantic Council

By Atlantic Council

The Lead with Jake Tapper features presidential candidate and Senator Lindsey Graham at the Atlantic Council, where the CNN host moderated a discussion with Graham as the first of the Atlantic Council’s Strategy Initiative 2016 Presidential Candidate Series:

In the News

Jul 8, 2015

New York Times Covers Sen. Lindsey Graham Event

By Atlantic Council

The New York Times covers the Atlantic Council event Senator Lindsey Graham on “America’s Role in the World” in an article about the 2016 US presidential candidate:

In the News

Jul 8, 2015

Politico on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Atlantic Council Speech

By Atlantic Council

Politico covers the Atlantic Council event Senator Lindsey Graham on “America’s Role in the World” in an article about the 2016 presidential candidate’s vision for a muscular national security agenda:

In the News

Jul 8, 2015

CBS News Highlights Atlantic Council Senator Graham Event

By Atlantic Council

CBS News highlights the Atlantic Council event Senator Lindsey Graham on “America’s Role in the World”, in which Senator Lindsey Graham delivered his first foreign policy speech as a declared 2016 presidential candidate:

In the News

Jul 8, 2015

MSNBC Features Atlantic Council Sen. Lindsey Graham Event

By Atlantic Council

MSNBC features the Atlantic Council event Senator Lindsey Graham on “America’s Role in the World” in an article about Senator Graham calling for a troop surge in Iraq:

In the News

Jul 7, 2015

Nordenman: Sweden Struggles to Balance Defense Sales, Rights Concerns

By Magnus Nordenman

Brent Scowcroft Center Deputy Director Magnus Nordenman writes for World Politics Review on the tensions between Sweden’s arms export business and its desire to respect human rights abroad:

Defense Industry Northern Europe

In the News

Jul 6, 2015

Grand Design of the US-Japan Alliance at a New Stage

By Robert Manning

The Study Group on Grand Design of the US-Japan Alliance at a New Stage released Grand Design of the US-Japan Alliance at a New Stage: As a Protector of a Liberal, Open, Rule-based International Order in the “Era of Smart Power,” a report joined by Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning on the […]

Japan

In the News

Jul 1, 2015

Pavel on ‘Westphalian-Plus’ World

By Barry Pavel

The Atlantic quotes Vice President and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on how seventy years after its founding, the United Nations faces a world that looks nothing like it did in 1945:

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Jun 30, 2015

Manning: How George Kennan Would Contend with China’s Rise

By Robert A. Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert A. Manning cowrites for The National Interest on how a strategy of containment could help manage China’s rise:

China

In the News

Jun 26, 2015

Pavel on ISIS Attacks

By Barry Pavel

Politico quotes Vice President and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on how the United States is reassessing the threat of ISIS after three attacks in three different countries in one day: