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

Mar 31, 2015

Government Health IT Highlights Cyber Statecraft Initiative Report

Government Health IT highlights a report by the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative about the growing risk of security breaches in networked healthcare devices:

In the News

Mar 27, 2015

Meservey and Ward: Keep Boko Haram on the Run

By Joshua Meservey and Alex Ward

Africa Center Assistant Director Joshua Meservey and Brent Scowcroft Center Assistant Director Alex Ward write for US News and World Report on the importance of the Nigerian government continuing the fight against Boko Haram after Saturday’s presidential election:

Nigeria Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Mar 27, 2015

Manning on Yemen and Oil Prices

By Robert Manning

Anadolu Agency’s Energy News Terminal quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning on the crisis in Yemen and how it could affect oil prices:

Yemen

In the News

Mar 25, 2015

Metzl on Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CNN to discuss Lee Kuan Yew’s political and economic legacy:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

Pavel and Saab: Reassuring America’s Gulf Arab Partners

By Pavel and Saab

VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab write for the National Interest on how a nuclear deal with Iran would affect US policy toward the Arab Gulf states:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

USNI News Highlights Atlantic Council Report on US Policy in the Gulf

By Pavel and Saab

USNI News highlights an Atlantic Council report authored by VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow for Middle East Security Bilal Y. Saab on US military posture in the Persian Gulf:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

Ward: Battleground Metropolis: The Future of Urban Warfare

By Alex Ward

Brent Scowcroft Center Assistant Director Alex Ward writes for the National Interest on how the population shift to urban centers will affect the future of warfare:

In the News

Mar 24, 2015

Metzl on China’s Factory Sector Falling

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins Bloomberg to discuss the increase in the Chinese stock market and the need for economic reform:

China

In the News

Mar 23, 2015

Brzezinski on the Breakdown of Relations Between Moscow and the West

By Ian Brzezinski

The Polish Institute of International Affairs quotes  Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on how Russia’s withdrawal from the Conventional Forces Europe treaty demonstrates a further breakdown in relations between Moscow and the West:

Russia

In the News

Mar 22, 2015

Foreign Affairs on Gaming ISIS

By Atlantic Council

Foreign Affairs offers insight on the Obama administration’s ISIS strategy from a recent war game hosted in conjunction with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security:

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