When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden joined Finland in applying to join the transatlantic alliance.

Find out what that means for security in Europe.

Read the full Atlantic Council analysis of Sweden’s NATO accession: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/iss...

President Isaac Herzog of Israel declared to @AtlanticCouncilUS : "Israel is willing to enter another humanitarian pause and bring in additional humanitarian aid in order to bring back the hostages."

In an exclusive #ACFrontPage conversation with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, he discussed Israel's m...

Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Valbona Zeneli writes that Italy's exit from China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a precedent-setting decision that other nations may follow. Plagued by loan defaults and failed infrastructure projects, countries are souring on the project that Chin...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry joined the Atlantic Council for an #ACFrontPage conversation on the Israel-Hamas War, Egypt’s regional leadership and other pressing challenges.

"Overall, the broader issue is the two-state solution. There's a consensus that that is the manner in which we...

World leaders are convening in Dubai for the twenty-eighth United Nations Climate Change Conference. While previous COPs have set the lofty targets nations need to meet to avert climate disaster, the money needed to pay for it is, for the most part, nowhere to be seen. According to the Adrienne A...

John Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, addressed the Atlantic Council on the significance of fusion energy in the energy transition. He spoke at the Global Energy Forum at COP28 in Dubai.

"There is potential in fusion to revolutionize our world and to change all of the options t...

Ambassador Bonnie D. Jenkins, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the US Department of State, talked to@AtlanticCouncilUS about the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (AUKUS).

"AUKUS is about making sure the In...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama joined the Atlantic Council for an AC Front Page conversation on Albania’s path to the EU and Western Balkan integration, moderated by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe.

"The war between Israel and Hamas is really very dangerous, because Hamas a...

Atlantic Council North Africa Initiative Director Karim Mezran writes that among the consequences of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas is the balance of relations in North Africa, especially threatening to reignite the rivalry between Morocco and Algeria.

Caught in a decades-long rivalry,...

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of Estonia spoke to the Atlantic Council about the defense, security, and global dimensions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, during the 2023 EU-US Defense and Future Forum.

"Russia wants to redraw the map of Europe, including by reestablishing spheres of influence and...

Mykola Bielieskov, a research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies and a senior analyst at Ukrainian NGO “Come Back Alive,” writes that since the US supplied Ukraine’s army with long-range ATACMS with a range as high as 100 miles in October, the missiles have shifted the equatio...

Gerald Seib, Former Executive Washington Editor of the The Wall Street Journal, spoke to the Atlantic Council about the risks facing foreign correspondents and global press freedom six months after the arrest of Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich in Russia, on false espionage char...

Melanie Hart, Senior Advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific at the Office of the Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, spoke to the Atlantic Council about the role of PRC-linked companies in China’s economic coercion, with a focus on critical infrastructure and...

Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs Daniel Mouton says that with the Hamas attacks and subsequent Israeli incursion in Gaza, “Israel’s deterrent ability to the region was shattered.”

Watch as Mouton describes the long-term impacts of ...

The October 7 Hamas attack threatens to disrupt more than Iraq’s normalization of relations with Israel, Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Iraq Initiative and Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs C. Anthony Pfaff says.

“After Israel responded to Hamas’s deadly October ...

Ditte Juul Jørgensen, the European Commission's Director-General for Energy, spoke to @AtlanticCouncilUS about Europe’s progress and future outlook for diversifying and decarbonizing its energy supply—including efforts to reduce dependence on Russia's energy.

"Before the Russian invasion, we we...

Nonresident Senior Fellow Shahira Amin, the former Deputy Head of Egypt’s Channel Nile TV, says that Egypt’s government “fears that the violence on its doorstep may spill over into its territory and that Israeli airstrikes would result in a mass exodus of Gazans into the Sinai Peninsula.”

Egypt...

“The public may eventually learn a conclusive answer as to whether or not Iran helped plan the terrorist attack... But the world already knows what matters most: Iran shares responsibility for it,” Jonathan Panikoff, director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative in the Middle East Pro...

Israeli officials have said that the goal of its anticipated ground operation in Gaza is the complete destruction of Hamas’s military capabilities. Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Alex Plitsas writes that the campaign will be marked by airborne shaping operations, efforts to rescue mor...

US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, spoke to the Atlantic Council about the role of the hydrogen sector in boosting US industrial competitiveness and global leadership. He discussed how Russia's war in Ukraine has alerted the US to the dan...

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) spoke to the Atlantic Council about the nexus of food, nutrition, and national security—emphasizing the massive hunger crisis experienced since the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The world is facing the worst hunger crisis since World War II. The stats are dire. 345 million peop...

India's Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, discusses the agreement on IMF quotas with the @AtlanticCouncilUS 's Josh Lipsky from the IMF-World Bank meetings in Marrakesh.

"I think the suggestion which came from the US has been accepted, at least as an immediate, temporary solution... The eq...

Hung Tran, a nonresident senior fellow at the @AtlanticCouncilUS's GeoEconomics Center, shared his views on the outcomes of the IMF-World Bank plenary session in Marrakesh.

"The G20 communiqué released today makes no mentioning of a quota increase by the IMF, and therefore, despite the Managing...

H.E. Serhiy Marchenko, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, discussed Ukraine's economic stability and emphasized the importance of continued support from allies and partners during the IMF-World Bank meetings in Marrakesh.

"We would like our partners to be more determined to support Ukraine," h...