Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave is a joint project between the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), aimed at catalyzing support for nonviolent pro-democracy movements fighting against authoritarian rule.

The...

HOW FREE MARKETS SHAPE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT - One of the defining questions of our time is whether free markets or economies controlled by authoritarian regimes are better at delivering prosperity for their people.

A panel of distinguished experts held a discussion on free markets and development ...

NATO’S MIRCEA GEOANA ON SECURITY, FREEDOM, AND PROSPERITY IN EASTERN EUROPE - The Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center hosted a discussion featuring Mircea Geoană, Deputy Secretary General of NATO.

Post-communist Eastern Europe has made impressive strides on the path to freedom and p...

The Freedom and Prosperity Center, in partnership with Center for International Private Enterprise and the Heritage Foundation, held a panel discussion at the National Press Club on November 2, 2022.

Panelists representing six different think tanks analyzed China and Taiwan’s performances in key...

Do countries need freedom to achieve prosperity? We built an index to measure the relationship between the relationship between these two indicators to see whether countries with higher levels of freedom are also more prosperous.

GLOBAL PROSPERITY FORUM - The interplay of geopolitical forces and domestic governance highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of the factors driving global prosperity and economic development. Rigorous empirical analysis and interdisciplinary insights are needed to establish that un...