HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL AT THE WASHINGTON NATO SUMMIT - Watch some of the highlights and behind-the-scenes moments from the Atlantic Council at the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington, DC. Celebrating seventy-five years as a leading military alliance, NATO leaders convened from July 9-11 ...

A CROSS-STRAIT AND BEYOND SEMINAR: BOLSTERING TAIWAN’S RESILIENCE - Please join the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security for a seminar on bolstering Taiwan’s resilience against PRC aggression.

This event is part of IPSI’s Cr...

JENNA BEN-YEHUDA’S MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT - Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Jenna Ben-Yehuda breaks down the main takeaways from the 75th NATO Summit and NATO Public Forum. She analyzes the “strengthened approach” the allies took on Ukraine, the alliance’s language tow...

WHAT ARE THE MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM NATO’S WASHINGTON SUMMIT DECLARATION? - NATO leaders have released the Washington Summit Declaration, a consensus document setting forth what the Alliance stands for. Our experts Matthew Kroenig, Vice President and Senior Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strat...

DID THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT GO FAR ENOUGH ON UKRAINE? THE COUNTRY'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER RESPONDS - Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk reacts to NATO's Washington Summit Declaration promising a "bridge" to NATO membership for Ukraine and an "irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic i...

THE NORDIC-BALTIC REGION: COOPERATION IN NATO’S NORTHEAST - Since last year’s Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, the security landscape in NATO’s northeast has shifted significantly. New defense plans and strong defense spending, coupled with the historic accession of Sweden and Finland, has reshaped ...

In part one of this special episode of “So What’s the Strategy?” as host Matthew Kroenig dives into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s effectiveness and strategic posture. Featuring insights from Dr. Benedetta Berti, the Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General at NATO...

ALL EYES ON WASHINGTON: WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT - This year’s NATO Summit taking place in Washington, DC, marks seventy-five years of the world’s strongest military alliance. Heads of state and government descending upon Washington will have much to celebrate. Finland and Sweden’s ...

EXECUTING DISTRIBUTED OPERATIONS IN A CONTESTED MARITIME ENVIRONMENT - Distributed maritime operations (DMO) is the warfighting concept at the heart of the US Navy’s planning for current and future operations. How well is the Navy poised for executing this concept? Our report delves into the spec...

JOIN THE CONVERSATION AT THE 2024 NATO PUBLIC FORUM IN WASHINGTON - Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic Council, explores NATO’s history, from its founding by twelve nations in 1949 to its current thirty-two members, including Finland and Sweden, and discusses NATO’s role in safegu...

PRODUCTION DIPLOMACY FOR INDO-PACIFIC DETERRENCE, READINESS, AND RESILIENCE - The Indo-Pacific Security Initiative (IPSI) of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security hosted a discussion on production diplomacy for Indo-Pacific deterrence, readiness, and resilience.

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REPORTERS AT RISK: LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN - Threats to press freedom across Latin America and the Caribbean are on the rise. Mexico remains one of the deadliest countries for journalists outside of active war zones, with more than 150 reporters killed and dozens missing over the past two...

THE ART OF DIPLOMACY: HISTORIC AGREEMENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD - Over the past fifty years, major international agreements forged by American diplomats and negotiators— from the opening to China to the Abraham Accords— have transformed the world. Through war and peace, diplomacy has been an ess...

GENERAL CQ BROWN, JR. ON HOW US FORCES ARE READYING FOR NEW GLOBAL THREATS - Today, war in Ukraine, conflict in the Middle East, and brewing tensions in the Indo-Pacific—stemming from both China and North Korea—present challenges for the United States military’s ability to effectively meet the de...

ROAD TO WASHINGTON: GENERAL CHRISTOPHER CAVOLI ON THE NATO SUMMIT - On Friday, May 17, the Atlantic Council broadcasted an #ACFrontPage conversation with General Christopher G. Cavoli, Commander US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Cavoli, a recipient of the 2024 Atlantic Coun...

SECURITY AND STABILITY FOR THE BLACK SEA REGION - Bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, and NATO allies and partners to the south and west, the security of the Black Sea region has risen to new strategic pre-eminence as an economic, geopolitical, and military focal point foll...

STRENGTHENING THE MIDDLEGROUND OF THE DEFENSE-INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE - The Pentagon’s National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) expresses the imperative of “strengthening and modernizing our defense industrial base ecosystem” and sets priorities for meeting those challenges. In ecology, middlegro...

A BACK-TO-BUSINESS BIRTHDAY: PRIORITIES FOR THE 2024 NATO SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON - As NATO accelerates preparations for its 75th Anniversary Summit taking place in Washington this July, the transatlantic alliance will have much to celebrate. The accession of Finland and Sweden has added two highly-...

REPORT LAUNCH: THE SIXTH DOMAIN AND THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR - The United States and its allies and partners have laid out five operational domains for wartime—air, land, maritime, cyberspace, and space—but Russia’s war in Ukraine has revealed a sixth domain: the “sphere of activities” of t...

SPACE INDUSTRY FOR SPACE STRATEGY - The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security’s Forward Defense program hosted a fireside chat with Lieutenant General Shawn N. Bratton, US Space Force (USSF) deputy chief of space operations, strategy, plans, programs, and requirements. The conversation will ...

A NEW NEXUS: HOW CAN WE UNDERSTAND RUSSIA AND IRAN’S UNPRECEDENTED COOPERATION? - Moscow and Tehran have been close partners driven by hostility towards the West since the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s. But after Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the two groups have ...

A CONVERSATION WITH GENERAL JIM HOCKENHULL ON AN INNOVATIVE UK STRATEGIC COMMAND - The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Forward Defense program hosted its latest installment of our Commanders Series, “A conversation with General Jim Hockenhull on an innovative...

NATO AT 75: AN ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER WORLD - April 4, 2024, marks 75 years since 12 countries signed the Washington Treaty, which established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This is a moment to celebrate the world’s largest and most successful military alliance, but also a time to t...

As NATO turns 75 and looks towards its annual summit in July, the Alliance faces existential questions amid the War in Ukraine and its role as a defender of democracy in Europe.

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 04/04/24