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

Dec 9, 2014

Burrows: Using Fiction to Understand Strategy and the Future

By Mathew Burrows

Strategic Foresight Initiative Director Mathew Burrows writse for War on the Rocks on why fiction is key to understanding a different future: 

In the News

Dec 7, 2014

Ullman: Why the United States Is Losing the War Against the Islamic State

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for UPI on US strategy for combating the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham:

In the News

Dec 6, 2014

Kroenig on the “Spotlight” on Ashton Carter

By Matthew Kroenig

The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig on the nomination of Ashton Carter as secretary of defense:

In the News

Dec 5, 2014

Manning: Taiwan Could Be Asia’s Next Big Security Nightmare

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert Manning writes for the National Interest on the results of Taiwan’s local elections:

In the News

Dec 1, 2014

Lightfoot on the Mistral Warship Issue

By Jeff Lightfoot

Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Jeff Lightfoot joins the American Interest to discuss France’s decision to suspend the delivery of the first of two Mistral warships to Russia: Listen to the full interview.

France Russia

In the News

Nov 28, 2014

Seip: Mr. Hagel’s Ouster Solves Little

By Mark Seip

Brent Scowcroft Center US Navy Fellow Mark Seip writes for the Washington Post on why Chuck Hagel’s dismissal as defense secretary will “do little to change the direction of the fight against the Islamic State or broader national foreign policy:”

In the News

Nov 26, 2014

Ullman on ISIS: Existential or Exaggerated Danger?

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for UPI on the danger of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham:

In the News

Nov 26, 2014

Manning on Upcoming OPEC Meeting

By Robert Manning

Anadolu Agency quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Senior Fellow Robert Manning on the upcoming meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: 

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

In the News

Nov 25, 2014

Washington Post Cites Metzl’s “Genesis Code”

By Jamie Metzl

The Washington Post lists the Genesis Code, a new book by Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security Jamie Metzl, as one of three new sci-fi novels that depict frightening alternate realities: 

In the News

Nov 25, 2014

Kroenig on Iran Talks: “There Has Been Little Progress”

By Matthew Kroenig

Voice of America quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Kroenig on the extension of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 powers:

Iran
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