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The Tiger Project: War and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific

Explore the Atlantic Council’s work on current and enduring defense and deterrence issues in the Indo-Pacific, featuring expert commentary, multimedia content, and in-depth analysis.

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The Global China Hub tracks Beijing’s actions and their global impacts, assessing China’s rise from multiple angles and identifying emerging China policy challenges. The Hub leverages its network of China experts around the world to generate actionable recommendations for policymakers in Washington and beyond.

The Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) informs and shapes the strategies, plans, and policies of the United States and its allies and partners to address the most important rising security challenges in the Indo-Pacific, including China’s growing threat to the international order and North Korea’s destabilizing nuclear weapons advancements. IPSI produces innovative analysis, conducts tabletop exercises, hosts public and private convenings, and engages with US, allied, and partner governments, militaries, media, other key private and public-sector stakeholders, and publics.

Events

Content

In the News

Aug 23, 2021

Wieslander quoted in New York Times on Afghanistan

“The withdrawal fiasco will revive the strategic autonomy argument, but the best result, she said, would be ‘a European pillar in NATO’ that could — with major investment — provide some of the strategic airlift, surveillance, reconnaissance and command and control that only the Americans now provide. ‘If we want more capacity and burden-sharing,’ Ms. […]

Afghanistan
Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Samad quoted in The Global Herald on the Taliban rule in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
China

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Samad quoted in DW on the Taliban’s next possible steps

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Samad quoted in Al Jazeera on the mounting challenges ahead as the Taliban retakes power

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Crisis Management

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Alam in Asharq Al-Awsat: Ahmed Massoud Says Willing to Forgive for Peace in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Kamal Alam with BBC Somali: Reconciliation of war: “How will the Taliban deal with resistance in the Panjshir Valley?”

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Katz quoted in BBC News on the US not learning lessons from the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 22, 2021

Sales quoted in The New York Times on Afghanistan’s permissive environment for numerous terrorist groups

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Conflict

Inflection Points

Aug 22, 2021

Afghanistan threatens Biden’s shot at being a historic foreign-policy leader

By Frederick Kempe

At the end of the worst week of US President Joe Biden’s young presidency, this is the question he must urgently answer: Of all the problems that his Afghanistan troop withdrawal decision has generated, which is most significant?

Afghanistan
Conflict

In the News

Aug 21, 2021

Samad joins CGTN’s The Heat to discuss the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Crisis Management

Experts

Events