FORMER NSA STEPHEN HADLEY'S PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING ON WAGNER REBELLION IN RUSSIA - In an exclusive briefing for Atlantic Council global leadership on the Wagner mutiny and what's next for Russia and Ukraine, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley told Fred Kempe how he would brief the pre...

WILL MONTENEGRO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT? A DEBRIEF WITH PETAR POPOVIC - Following snap parliamentary elections on June 11th, Montenegro finds itself in a new phase of political uncertainty. The Europe Now Movement (PES) won a plurality of the vote but failed to secure enough seats to form a governm...

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan sat down with Wajahat S. Kahn, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Pakistan Initiative, for an interview on June 18, 2023.

In the Atlantic Council interview, Khan, who was ousted from power in April 2022, revealed new details about...

A CONVERSATION WITH GABRIEL ESCOBAR AND MIROSLAV LAJCAK - Recent progress in normalizing relations between Serbia and Kosovo through the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue is threatened by escalating tensions in the north of Kosovo. On June 14, Serbian forces detained three Kosovo police o...

8TH ANNUAL CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY CONFERENCE

Please join the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center for the 8th annual Central and Eastern European Energy Security Conference.

In this second year of Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine, the conference holds particular signifi...

NATO MEMBERSHIP AND SECURITY GUARANTEES: GETTING UKRAINE RIGHT AT THE VILNIUS SUMMIT - Brave Ukrainians have confronted unrelenting assaults on their homeland since the Russian Federation’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion in February 2022. Although support from the North Atlantic Alliance and its...

THE MECHANISMS OF CORRUPTION IN IRAN - The Atlantic Council’s Iran Strategy Project invites you to a virtual panel discussion featuring a number of distinguished speakers who have extensive experience in the field of corruption and sanctions and provide a unique opportunity to explore and discuss...

VOICES OF CHANGE: A CONVERSATION WITH MARIA CORINA MACHADO - Maria Corina Machado is a Venezuelan opposition politician and presidential candidate who will represent her party, Vente Venezuela, in Venezuela’s opposition primary elections on October 22. Maria Corina’s leadership and widespread sup...

POST-ELECTION TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS WITH TURKEY - On May 28, Turkey went to the polls to cast the deciding vote in the second round of presidential elections, the first run-off election in the country’s history. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected by winning 52.14% of the votes agains...

VISIONS OF CHANGE: A CONVERSATION WITH HENRIQUE CAPRILES - Henrique Capriles is a lawyer, politician, and two-time presidential candidate who will represent his party, Primero Justicia, in Venezuela’s opposition primary elections on October 22. Capriles’ experience as a public official includes s...

For Africa Day 2023, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar join the Africa Center’s Senior Director, Rama Yade, to discuss their visions and views on the current state of US-Africa relations and US policy towards Africa. This event serves as an opportunity to follow up on the rec...

CYBERSECURITY CREATES NEW HORIZONS FOR ABRAHAM ACCORDS - The expansion of the Abraham Accords to include cybersecurity was announced on February 3, 2023 by the US Department of Homeland Security, alongside cybersecurity officials from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco. Addres...

A CONVERSATION WITH THE RT. HON. GRANT SHAPPS MP - The Atlantic Council's Europe Center and Global Energy Center hosted a conversation with The Right Honorable Grant Shapps MP, UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, in Washington, DC.

Secretary Shapps spoke about the priorities ...

TOWARDS A RENEWED MULTILATERALISM WITH GERMAN MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT SVENJA SCHULZE - The minister's conversation focused on the current state of and future for development within the US-German and transatlantic relationships, and addressed the future of multilateralism...

FIRESIDE CHAT WITH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO VJOSA OSMANI-SADRIU - The Atlantic Council’s Europe Center hosted a fireside conversation with H.E. Vjosa Osmani, President of the Republic of Kosovo on May 10, 2023. The President discussed recent developments in the Belgrade-Pristina Dialog...

A CONVERSATION WITH UK FOREIGN SECRETARY JAMES CLEVERLY - The Atlantic Council hosted Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs James Cleverly for an AC Front Page event on May 9, 2023, in Washington, DC.

“We are now in a period of heightened risk and volatility that i...

#FRANCEVOTES: ELECTION ROUNDUP - The Atlantic Council’s Europe Center hosted the virtual event “#FranceVotes: Election roundup” on April 25, 2022.

With five years at the Elysée on the line, the 2022 French presidential election was set to decide the future of France’s political orientation. Whil...

HOW CAN KAZAKHSTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA HELP POWER AND FEED THE WORLD? - Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has produced economic and political repercussions across the globe, including energy shortages and growing food insecurity. The war has forced Central Asian countries to seek opportunities...

ARE ALLIES ALIGNED ON ECONOMIC STATECRAFT? US-UK COOPERATION ON RUSSIA & BEYOND - The Group of Seven (G7) took on a new role in February last year. As the United States, United Kingdom and other G7 allies united to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, their response involved coordinated ec...

A CONVERSATION WITH ITALIAN CHIEF OF DEFENSE ADMIRAL GIUSEPPE CAVO DRAGONE - The Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and Middle East Programs hosted Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Italy’s Chief of Defense, on April 19, 2023, for a conversation assessing Italy’s defense posture in light of Russia’s c...

FOSTERING A FOURTH DEMOCRATIC WAVE: A PLAYBOOK FOR COUNTERING THE AUTHORITARIAN THREAT - A powerful autocratic wave is sweeping the globe. According to Freedom House, the world is facing its seventeenth consecutive year of democratic decline. Can these trends be reversed? What will it take to fos...

A CONVERSATION WITH AYESHA JALAL: PAKISTAN DAY AND THE PATH FORWARD FOR THE COUNTRY - The Atlantic Council’s Pakistan Initiative, in collaboration with the APPAC Foundation, hosted a conversation with Dr. Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, on Pakistan Day and ...

US LEADERSHIP IN THE FUTURE OF MONEY: A CONVERSATION WITH UNDER SECRETARY NELLIE LIANG - March 2023 marked the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring the Responsible Development of Digital Assets, which addressed both the risks and the potential benefits of digital ...

WHAT CAN IRAN’S PROTESTERS LEARN FROM OTHER PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENTS? - The Atlantic Council’s Iran Strategy Project hosted an in-person panel discussion on February 23, 2023, with activists and experts from Syria, Sudan, and Venezuela.

After the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini by the so-called “moral...