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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.

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Press Release

Sep 17, 2013

Unprecedented Report Calls for US-China Cooperation to Address Emerging Global Challenges

WASHINGTON – A new and unprecedented report prepared by a team of Chinese and American strategic thinkers concludes that the two countries are not adequately addressing critical global challenges of the twenty-first century. China-US Cooperation: Key to the Global Future calls for the creation of a Vision Group of senior American and Chinese nongovernment and […]

China

Event Recap

Sep 16, 2013

Workshop on Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia

On September 16, 2013 the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted an off-the-record workshop on extended deterrence in Northeast Asia with the leading experts in the field, hosted by Barry Pavel, vice president and director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security of the Atlantic Council, and Richard Armitage, president of […]

East Asia
Ground based missile defense test, Jan. 26, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 13, 2013

US Names Five Possible East Coast Missile Defense Sites

By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters

The Pentagon announced five possible missile defense sites in the eastern United States on Thursday, but said it was far from any decision to proceed

Korea Missile Defense

New Atlanticist

Sep 13, 2013

China in the Regional Order: It’s not about Parity

By Robert A. Manning and James Przystup

To answer Hugh White’s initial question, ‘what is America’s ultimate aim in Asia today?’, there is no mystery about American aims in Asia: it is simply a rules-based order with unimpeded access to the global commons.

China Indo-Pacific

New Atlanticist

Sep 12, 2013

Jakarta’s Counterproductive Counterterrorism Approach

By Tyler McBrien

Opacity, lack of accountability, and extra-judicial killings are not criticisms reserved solely for US counterterrorism policies. The Indonesian government faces similar grievances, domestically and internationally, in its own counterterrorism campaign. With the ongoing pivot to Asia, the United States is looking to Indonesia, already a regional economic powerhouse, as a like-minded democratic partner. Encouragingly, Indonesia’s […]

Indo-Pacific

Event Recap

Sep 10, 2013

Dobbins, Other Leaders Call for Continued Assistance to Pakistan

At an event co-hosted by the Atlantic Council and International Relief and Development (IRD), Ambassador James Dobbins, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, US Department of State, said the international community’s provision of civilian assistance to Pakistan was a calculated bet on regional stability, economic progress, and long-term development.

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Sep 6, 2013

China: Mao or Markets?

By Robert A. Manning

Why is Chinese president Xi Jinping embracing his inner Mao at a moment when China’s new leaders are on the verge of launching a new wave of reforms to retool China’s economy based on strengthening market forces? Hint: it may have something to do with the regime’s efforts to bring down the former Chongqing Communist […]

China

Event Recap

Sep 5, 2013

Cyber Rivalry in South Asia

The Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted Dr. Tughral Yamin for a discussion on cyber security in South Asia, and the potential for building regional confidence building measures for the information space.

Cybersecurity South Asia
President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt

NATOSource

Sep 4, 2013

US and Sweden Agree on Key Security Issues

By Barack Obama and Fredrik Reinfeldt, White House

Excerpts from Joint Statement by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden

European Union International Organizations
USMC Gen. Joseph Dunford, Commander of ISAF

NATOSource

Sep 3, 2013

NATO Commander: Afghan Forces Suffering Too Many Casualties

By Emma Graham-Harrison, Guardian

Afghanistan’s police and army are losing too many men in battle, and may need up to five more years of western support

Afghanistan NATO

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