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May 28, 2014

Global Trade Policy: Made in Latin America?

By Peter Rashish

The policy brief lays out nine recommendations that policymakers can take to ensure that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) contribute to a broader level of international economic cooperation and sustainable growth. It is the first publication of the Atlantic Council’s new Global Trade and the Americas initiative, which […]

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Press Release

May 27, 2014

Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Announces New Fellow for Brazil

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT AJ Ross, aross@AtlanticCouncil.org 202.864.2829 The Atlantic Council is pleased to announce Ricardo Sennes, one of the world’s leading experts on Brazil, as a new nonresident senior Brazil fellow at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. Sennes offers comprehensive analysis on the new Brazil, as well as the country’s strategic position within global […]

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May 27, 2014

Russia Crisis: Why Europe Must Adopt a Comprehensive Energy Strategy

By Sigurd Neubauer

Amid escalating U.S.-Russian tensions over Moscow’s illegal incursion of Crimea and subsequent provocations in eastern Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak threatened last week to halt gas supplies to Ukraine and Europe should Western leaders decide to impose punitive sanctions on his government.

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May 27, 2014

What is going on in Brazil?

Less than a month before the World Cup begins two pillars of society critical to hosting a successful World Cup have initiated a strike: police and public transit officials. The bus strike in Brazil’s largest city began on Tuesday and at least 300,000 commuters have been affected. Traffic was reported to stretch 162 miles on […]

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May 26, 2014

Marczak on Colombian Elections

By Jason Marczak

CCTV America speaks with Jason Marczak, deputy director of Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council on the Colombian presidential elections and the challenges facing the incoming leader:

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Victory Day parade in Moscow, May 9, 2014

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May 23, 2014

Russia’s Military Modernization

By Economist

Any illusion that Russia could be a partner of NATO and the West has gone. This has brought the realisation that what kind of forces Mr Putin has and the uses he might put them to matter.

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Ukrainian soldiers participating in Rapid Trident 2012

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May 23, 2014

US Military Exercise in Ukraine Postponed Due to Conflict with Separatists

By Jeff Schogol, Army Times

A U.S. Army exercise planned in Ukraine this summer has been postponed, a spokesman for U.S. European Command said.

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Black Hornet Nano Helicopter UAV

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May 22, 2014

US Needs Strategy for a ‘Westphalian-Plus’ World

By Barry Pavel, Defense News

We now are in a new era in which nation-states are joined on the global stage by powerful individuals, groups and others who can and are taking actions that are disrupting the traditional world order.

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Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, May 14, 2014

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May 22, 2014

Dempsey to Urge NATO Chiefs to Step Up Mediterranean Security

By Marcus Weisgerber, Navy Times

America’s top general plans to push his NATO counterparts to increase security contributions in southern Europe along the Mediterranean at a meeting of the alliance’s uniformed leaders this week.

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May 21, 2014

Marczak on Sanctions Against Venezuela

By Jason Marczak

NBC News quotes Latin America Center Deputy Director Jason Marczak on whether the United States should advance sanctions against Venezuela:

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