Hung Tran, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the former Deputy Director of the IMF, reacts to the first day of the IMF’s 2024 Spring Meetings.

Watch more from the 2024 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the link below.

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Over the weekend, Iran unleashed a large-scale attack on Israel using drones and missiles—the first time Iran has directly attacked Israel. The two countries have long been engaged in a “shadow war,” with Iran using its proxies and Israel undertaking targeted assassinations. Most recently, an Isr...

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE 2024 IMF-WORLD BANK SPRING MEETINGS - Finance ministers and central bank governors from over 180 countries will converge on Washington, DC, next week for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings.

Josh Lipsky breaks down key issues on the agenda and what to expect.

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Debra Cagan, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, highlights the legal framework of Article 51 of the UN Charter, asserting Ukraine's legitimate right to strike targets within Russian territory that pose a threat of warfare.

"Under Article 51 of the UN Charter...Ukraine has a...

With 19 elections across the continent this year, Africa is in the midst of transitions that will alter democracy, and a widespread “democratic fatigue”, for years to come.

Rama Yade, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, writes that “By the end of 2024, the face of political...

"In retrospect, we probably should not have focused less on the sanctions, it's critical, but a little bit more on the military resilience for Ukraine and supporting Ukraine," says Peter Harrell, nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the former senior director f...

While Hamas has been hit with sanctions from the US, EU and G7 countries, the organization continues to manage an investment portfolio worth at least $500 million dollars, partly due to the lack of a terrorism designation for the group by the UN and partners in the Arab World.

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Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia are celebrating their 20th Anniversary in NATO today.

Watch Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna explain the importance of this milestone and priorities for the Alliance ahead of the Washington Summit this summer.

US SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Laura Richardson on the crisis in Haiti

"We're seeing a lot of challenges in Haiti," says General Laura Richardson, commander of US Southern Command while speaking at an #ACFrontPage event at the @AtlanticCouncilUS headquarters in Washington, DC moderated by POLITICO's...

The world is experiencing more conflict than any time since World War II.

Female freedom and workforce participation are critical for security as well as economic prosperity, and as Nicole Goldin with the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center writes, "Gender inclusion cannot be an afterthought....

Chinese battery electric vehicles, or BEVs are yet to hit the US market due to tariffs, but they likely will soon, and US officials are worried about the security implications.

Joseph Webster, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, writes that the cars pose complicated ...

Since the the Hamas attacks on October 7, Lebanon-based Hezbollah and the IDF have engaged in tit-for-tat missile and drone strokes, and the attacks are escalating.

Hezbollah is refusing to negotiate until the War in Gaza ends, and more than 80,000 residents of northern Israel have evacuated an...

"The United States and Chad have common values with many African countries, including the values of democracy," said Chad's newly-elected Prime Minister Succès Masra during his first visit to the United States in that role.

He was speaking to Rama Yade, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council's ...

“American investment in Ukraine’s capacity to defend itself is a literal proof that by helping others, you help yourself,” says Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radosław Sikorski.

In a speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, he appealed to the United States to give Ukraine the su...

Ukraine has bet big on drones, and the gamble has paid off, coming to define the conflict. Now, as the war enters its third year, the improvised tactic is quickly hardening into doctrine.

Mykola Bielieskov writes for the Atlantic Council's Ukraine Alert, "the ubiquity of drones in Ukraine is le...

“I’m hoping that I can be a role model for people I know [and] people I don’t know who can also aspire to be in leadership roles in government,” says Bonnie Jenkins, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the US Department of State.

She was speaking at an Atlanti...

China's stock market downturn is the latest in a series of economic blunders that have led to a mass exodus of foreign investors.

On top of a real estate crisis, a decline in manufacturing, and sanctions on state-owned companies by Western governments, Jeremy Mark, a Nonresident Senior Fellow w...

Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal, sees Ukraine's potential in critical raw materials and low-carbon energy.

"Ukraine has... what we need, and what we've been obtaining from Russia," he said.

During an #ACFrontPage conversation wit...

Indonesians will go to the polls on February 14, with three high-profile candidates vying to be the country's next president. Joko Widodo is leaving office after 10 years, and with more than 200 million eligible voters, the race to succeed him is complicated affair.

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US funding for Ukraine is drying up amid congressional gridlock. While Europe has agreed to send additional funds and the Biden administration might release weapons and other equipment, VP and Senior Director of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Matthew Kroenig say...

"You can't drive a Tesla on certain parts of Chinese roads—they say for national security reasons,” said US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. “Well, think about that," she added.

"What are the national security concerns?" she asked, when it comes to electric vehicles.

She was speaking at an AC...

When a drone propelled by Iranian-backed militias in Syria struck a US base in Jordan on January 28, killing three service members, both President Biden and Pentagon leadership vowed the US would respond.

As violence spirals in the Middle East, Atlantic Council experts write that the US and Ira...

Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani joined the Atlantic Council for an AC Front Page conversation on the war in Gaza, regional de-escalation, and US-Qatar relations.

When asked by the Washington Post's David Ignatius if Qatar ...

Since Western nations imposed heavy sanctions on Russia in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a so-called “dark fleet” has been unleashed to evade sanctions on oil and other exports.

Elisabeth Braw, a senior fellow with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, writes that th...