United States and Canada

United States and Canada

The United States has enjoyed an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War, due to its construction of a rules-based international order and maintenance of close alliances and partnerships. Canada has been a key partner for the United States, both due to their close economic links and their shared border, the world’s longest at 5,525 miles. Canada is also a key NATO ally for the United States and is active in international diplomacy around the world.

Let Europe Defend Itself

Dispatches
Mar 11, 2026

Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war

By
Atlantic Council experts

As the US-Israeli war against Iran reverberates across the Middle East and the globe, Atlantic Council experts bring clarity to the fast-moving events.

Conflict
Iran

Let Europe Defend Itself

Event Recap
Mar 6, 2026

Inside Trump’s long-term economic strategy, with EXIM Bank’s John Jovanovic

By
Katherine Golden

At an Atlantic Council Front Page event, Jovanovic talked about the supply chains he is working to reshape, from critical minerals to energy.

Trade and tariffs
United States and Canada

Let Europe Defend Itself

Dispatches
Feb 25, 2026

Why the Arctic matters to the United States

By
Julia Nesheiwat

The region is rapidly becoming a geopolitical arena where Russia and China’s deepening cooperation challenges Western dominance.

China
Critical Minerals

Content

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2013

Let Europe Defend Itself

By Sarwar Kashmeri and Jolyon Howorth, U.S. News & World Report

From Sarwar Kashmeri and Jolyon Howorth, U.S. News & World Report:  Twenty years ago the EU set up its Common Security and Defense Policy to create an autonomous military capability for Europe.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2013

Time to Pull US Troops from Europe

By Sean Kay, Foreign Policy

From Sean Kay, Foreign Policy:  Impressions of European "free-riding" on the United States for military operations have been deepening in Congress and among the American public for years now.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2013

US Forces Training for Potential Chemical Weapons Crisis in Syria

By Barbara Starr, CNN Security Clearance

From Barbara Starr, CNN Security Clearance:  Senior U.S. officials have said there is continuing concern that eventually some type of military units will be needed to go into Syria to take control of the [chemical] weapons. For more than a year, the United States has quietly trained Jordanian forces for that mission. But the Army’s […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2013

The Role of NATO in Today’s World

By Mary T. Curtin, Star Tribune

From Mary T. Curtin, Star Tribune:  NATO plays an important role protecting the security that has enabled decades of European and North American peace and prosperity.

United States and Canada

MENASource

Jun 20, 2013

America and the Democratic Transition in Egypt

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin

I happened to be spending a few days in New York and Washington DC for work, immediately after an Egyptian court sentenced a number of defendants to prison among them a number of Americans in the so-called "NGO Funding Trial", in which foreign NGOs were accused of illegally funding and supporting Egyptian NGOs during the […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jun 19, 2013

A New Declaration of Interdependence

By Frederick Kempe and Aart De Geus

On July 4, 1962, U.S. president John F. Kennedy declared “that the United States will be ready for a Declaration of Interdependence, that we will be prepared to discuss with a united Europe the ways and means of forming a concrete Atlantic partnership, a mutually beneficial partnership between the new union now emerging in Europe […]

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2013

Obama to Germany: ‘Complacency is not the Character of Great Nations’

By Barack Obama, White House

From Barack Obama, White House:  [B]ecause courageous crowds climbed atop that wall, because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies, because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom, we can say, here in Berlin, here in Europe — our values won.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2013

South Korea to Buy European Missiles

By AFP

From AFP:  South Korea will buy European bunker-busting missiles as the United States refused to sell the same kind of weapons to the country, the state procurement agency said Wednesday.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 19, 2013

Obama Proposes Cutting US and Russian Strategic Nuclear Weapons by a Third

By White House

From White House:  After a comprehensive review of our nuclear forces, the President has determined that we can ensure the security of the United States and our allies and partners and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent while safely pursuing up to a one-third reduction in deployed strategic nuclear weapons

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2013

Two Great Powers, No Real Leadership

By Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal

From Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal:  Twice in the 20th century, Germany tried to grab hegemony by bayonet and blitzkrieg, almost destroying itself and Europe in the process.

United States and Canada
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Experts

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Rolando Mattar

Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow

Global Energy Center

Energy & Environment United States and Canada

Fellow

Barbara C. Matthews

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoEconomics Center

Americas China

Fellow

Mary McCord

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoStrategy Initiative Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Extremism Intelligence

Fellow

Daniel McDowell

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoEconomics Center

China Economy & Business

Fellow

Whitney McNamara

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

Defense Industry Defense Policy

Fellow

Joel Meyer

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative GeoStrategy Initiative

Artificial Intelligence Defense Policy
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