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

Feb 6, 2015

Joyner: Why Congress is AWOL on National Security Policy

By James Joyner

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow James Joyner writes for the Christian Science Monitor on why Congress has become less influential in foreign policymaking:

In the News

Feb 5, 2015

Kramer: Cyber Sanctions After Sony

By Franklin D. Kramer

Atlantic Council Board Member and Scowcroft Center Distinguished Fellow Franklin Kramer cowrites for The Hill’s Congress Blog on utilizing sanctions as a response to cyber attacks:

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

In the News

Feb 5, 2015

Metzl: It’s Time for the United States to Talk About Genetics

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl writes for the Washington Post on the need for the United States to have a national conversation on the future of human genetic manipulation:

In the News

Feb 4, 2015

Metzl on British Parliament’s Controversial Vote on Embryo Modification

By Jamie Metzl

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl joins CBS News to discuss the British Parliament’s historic vote to allow the creation of babies from the DNA of three people and the prospects for similar legislation in the United States:

In the News

Feb 3, 2015

Metzl on Legally Sanctioned Genetic Engineering

By Jamie Metzl

Quartz quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl on the UK Parliament approving a controversial law to allow the creation of babies from the genes of three people:

In the News

Feb 3, 2015

Benitez on US Aid to Ukraine

By Jorge Benitez

NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez joins CCTV America to discuss US aid to Ukraine and potential Russian reaction to increased military assistance to Ukraine:

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Feb 3, 2015

Ullman: Arming Ukraine — Deterring or Provoking Disaster?

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for the Huffington Post on what arming Ukraine means for both NATO and Russia:

NATO Russia

In the News

Feb 3, 2015

Brzezinski on Ukraine’s Plan to Increase Taxes on the Wealthy

By Ian Brzezinski

CNBC quotes Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on the plan announced by Ukraine’s new finance minister, Natalie Jaresko, to increase taxes on the wealthy:

Ukraine

In the News

Feb 2, 2015

Manning on the Legacy of the Asian Financial Crisis

By Robert Manning

Evan A. Feingenbaum highlights his work with Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning in Foreign Affairs on the legacy of the Asian financial crisis and what it means for the United States:

Indo-Pacific

In the News

Jan 30, 2015

Kroenig: Facing Reality: Getting NATO Ready for a New Cold War

By Matthew Kroenig

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig writes for Survival on Russian aggression and what it means for the stability of the post-Cold War order in Europe:

NATO Security & Defense
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