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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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May 16, 2012

Afghanistan in Transition: Power Dynamics

By Adrienne Chuck

The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center held a discussion about “Afghanistan in Transition: Power Dynamics” with Nick Dowling and Mariam Atash Nawabi on May 16.

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

May 14, 2012

Priorities for the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago

By Ian Brzezinski

The Chicago Summit will be important in large part because of the context in which it takes place. That context includes: A war in Afghanistan from which both the US and Europe appear to be disengaging; Economic crises on both sides of the Atlantic that have atrophied European defense capabilities; A qualified success in Libya […]

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May 9, 2012

Keys to Prosperity: The Dynamics of Stability, Security, and Economics in South Asia

By Jason Harmala

On May 9, 2012, the Atlantic Council hosted a members’ roundtable with H.E. Shaukat Aziz, former prime minister of Pakistan, on South Asian financial, security, and regional relations, and the increasingly strategic role the region plays in global affairs.

South Asia

New Atlanticist

May 4, 2012

Chen Guangcheng Deal Struck, No Thanks to Chen Guangcheng

By James Joyner

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese anti-abortion activist whose daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention, is about to get his wish to come to America. He didn’t make it easy.

China

New Atlanticist

May 4, 2012

Made in China: Is America Losing its Grand Strategic Mojo?

By Julian Lindley-French

Former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson once famously remarked that Britain had lost an empire but had not yet found a role. Sadly, many years later London’s strategic bankruptcy means Britain is still searching, but what of the US? Nothing that has happened of late suggests an America that is thinking hard about how […]

China

New Atlanticist

May 3, 2012

China’s Political Intrigue Ventures West

By Frederick Kempe

Imagine that an American intelligence agency organizes an “exercise,” as one occasionally does, on how to manage an unwanted but inescapable Washington role in a Chinese leadership struggle.

China

New Atlanticist

May 2, 2012

Beyond OBL: Time for Bold Moves

By Shuja Nawaz

What a difference a year makes! Today school children play cricket on the ground where a year ago Osama Bin Laden lived…and died. The sun is shining in Abbottabad. But clouds fill the horizon for the United States-Pakistan relationship.

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

May 1, 2012

Chinese Navy Joins Carrier Club; Still Junior Member

By Michael Hannan

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) continues to prepare its new aircraft carrier (SHI LANG) for operations and train a nascent cadre of naval aviators to launch and return to the deck of a moving ship. Beyond developing the day-to-day tasks involved with driving a carrier and conducting flight operations, the Chinese military must painstakingly […]

China

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2012

Pakistan: The Hotel California of World Politics

By Julian Lindley-French

Pakistan is a nuclear power with a population of some 187 million of whom between 25 and 30 percent live below the UN-defined poverty line situated in just about the most fraught place on the planet. This weekend’s tragic and brutal murder of Red Cross aid worker Khalil Dale has once again brought home how […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 26, 2012

Afghanistan Victory Not in Sight

By James Joyner

In a speech to the Atlantic Council this week, Major General John Toolan, just returned from a year commanding NATO forces in southwestern Afghanistan, both highlighted the tremendous progress coalition forces have made since the beginning of the Afghan surge and candidly acknowledged how much work remains to be done.

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