A CONVERSATION WITH DUTCH MINISTER OF DEFENSE KAJSA OLLONGREN - The Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, held a public conversation with Minister of Defense for the Kingdom of the Netherlands H.E. Kajsa Ollongren, on J...

GENDER AND STRATEGIC COMPETITION - The Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, in partnership with Our Secure Future, hosted a public conversation on “Gender and Strategic Competition,” on Friday, July 15, 2022, from 1:30-2:30pm on Z...

A CONVERSATION ABOUT TAIWAN WITH THE 27TH US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MARK T. ESPER - The Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative, housed within the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and the Global China Hub hosted a conversation with the 27th US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper on Ju...

SECURE SUPPLY CHAINS AND THE RACE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: HOW CAN THE UNITED STATES SUCCEED AGAINST CHINA AND RUSSIA? - Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joined the Atlantic Council for a conversation on China, securing supply chains,...

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE REFORM - The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is undertaking a number of initiatives to adjust the Committee’s work away from the counterterrorism focus of the last twenty years and toward strategic collection and analysis ...

HOW CAN WE DETER CHINA IN THE 2020S? A CONVERSATION WITH MICHÈLE FLOURNOY - While the United States has long planned to prevent a Sino-Taiwanese war, President Xi Jinping has made abundantly clear that “reunifying” Taiwan with China is a legacy goal. As Beijing rapidly modernizes its military, Ch...

PRACTICING TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DIPLOMACY: A CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR DERECK J. HOGAN - What are the key practices and tools, including technology, that diplomats must harness to capably exercise diplomacy in the twenty-first century? The world is in a new, more contested era, marked by a ret...

THE WAY FORWARD FOR US COOPERATION WITH ALLIES ON THE GLOBAL GREEN ECONOMY AND TECHNOLOGIES - The Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, in partnership with the Global Energy Center and Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, convened an informative and frank conversation on how the United Stat...

STRATEGIC BLINDSPOTS? ADVANCING GENDER IN US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES - The release of the US National Security and Defense Strategies (NSS and NDS) reflect that the United States and its allies and partners are entering a decisive decade. From the acute threat of Russia to the pacing challen...

UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE AND NATO - Throughout Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian forces have proven highly adaptive and innovative in their use of emerging technologies and concepts on the battlefield. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) especially have been essential in Ukraine’s ba...

HARNESSING ALLIED SPACE CAPABILITIES - Hosted by the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and its Forward Defense program, this event featured the launch of a paper series, produced in partnership with Thales, which explores how the United States can better work with its allies and partners...

IDEAS TO IMPLEMENTATION: PRIORITIES FOR NATO’S VILNIUS SUMMIT - More than a year after Russia’s brutal, illegal, and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the transatlantic community remains at a critical juncture. Looking towards the Vilnius Summit in July 2023, NATO must urgently deliver on its reaff...

TECH RACE WITH CHINA: TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY - The United States has been the world’s technology leader since the end of World War II, and its innovation edge has provided substantial economic, geopolitical, and military advantages for decades. As we enter a contested period of great-pow...

ASIA’S RESPONSE TO US-CHINA TENSIONS AND COVID-19: A CONVERSATION WITH SINGAPORE’S PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AND DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN - In this edition of Atlantic Council Front Page (#ACFrontPage), Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore joined a conversation with master ...

COMBATING FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION: A NATIONAL SECURITY IMPERATIVE - Please join the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, in partnership with the Eleanor Crook Foundation and in coordination with General James L. Jones, on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 10 a.m. ET for a conversati...

INTEGRATING DEFENSE CAPABILITIES WITH ALLIES - The US military procurement bureaucracy tends to seek domestic sources of aircraft, ships, ground vehicles, and missile systems, and often then export those systems to allies and partners. This tendency predisposes security cooperation to be a one-wa...

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-...

COMMANDING THE ALLIANCE: PERSPECTIVES FROM SACEURS
Today’s global security landscape is the most volatile and contested it has been since the end of the Cold War. Deepening cooperation between the “axis of aggressors” threatens the shared values of democracy and peace on which the Alliance was fo...

US-LATVIA RESILIENCE CONFERENCE - Join the Atlantic Council and Center for East European Policy Studies for the US-Latvia Resilience Conference at Atlantic Council headquarters.

The current period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty has been defined by shifting power dynamics, ongoing conflic...

SENATORS JEANNE SHAHEEN AND THOM TILLIS ON RUSSIA’S WAR AND THE HAGUE SUMMIT - Join the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security‘s Transatlantic Security Initiative for a fireside discussion featuring Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Thom Tilli...

GENERAL THOMAS BUSSIERE ON GLOBAL STRIKE COMMAND’S ROLE IN STRATEGIC DETERRENCE - Join he Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security’s Forward Defense program for a virtual conversation with General Thomas A. Bussiere, commander of the US Air Force Global Strike Command, on the command’s role in ...