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Sherman in WIRED: The US Is Waging War on Digital Trade Barriers

By Atlantic Council

AS DIGITAL TRADE barriers rise throughout the world, so do swings at knocking them down. In the past two months, the US Trade Representative released two reports on China and Russia’s World Trade Organization compliance. Just last week, the European Union opened its landmark General Data Protection Regulation to public comments, many of which will surely attack perceived trade barriers. “Barriers to […]

Nia in The Independent: Like after 9/11, governments could use coronavirus to permanently roll back our civil liberties

By Atlantic Council

With over a million confirmed cases and a death toll quickly approaching 100,000, Covid-19 is the worst pandemic in modern history by many orders of magnitude. That governments were unprepared to deal with a global pandemic is at this point obvious. What is worse is that the establishment of effective testing and containment policies at […]

Ullman in UPI: New coalition needed to lead global post-coronavirus plan of action

By Harlan Ullman

Bell quoted in International Business Times on coronavirus’s energy impact

By Atlantic Council

Preble in Responsible Statecraft: How will COVID-19 change US national security strategy?

The military and other tools of force and coercion are useless against deadly pathogens. Christopher Preble examines how this reality will create downward pressure on U.S. military spending and should compel re-examination not merely of foreign policy means, but also foreign policy ends.

Jamil in The National Interest: America Must Lead on Sanctions Relief for Coronavirus-Stricken North Korea

By Atlantic Council

Amin quoted in the Washington Examiner on boosting low-carbon energy

By Atlantic Council

Blakemore quoted in Energy Wire on Trump’s oil meeting

By Atlantic Council

Cohen in Newsweek: The Covid-19 Disaster Has Been Decades in the Making—and Both Republicans and Democrats are to Blame

By Atlantic Council

Human history is replete with unanticipated catastrophic events that come like a bolt from the blue. During World War II, both Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came as strategic surprises. Then as now, intelligence warnings were ignored. Other shockers include the Egyptian and Syrian attack on […]