A CONVERSATION WITH THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA MARGUS TSAHKNA - Please join the Scowcroft Center’s Transatlantic Security Initiative and the Europe Center for a conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia Margus Tsahkna. This event ...

CHANGES IN THE HOUSE: FUNDING FOR UKRAINE AND WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST - On September 30, Congress passed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open until mid-November, averting a government shutdown with a 45-day funding extension. In the process, American national security priori...

WHAT TO DO WITH RUSSIA’S BLOCKED ASSETS - Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, G7 countries imposed sanctions on Russia's reserves and blocked its assets. But can and should those assets be seized? The panelists discuss options and their implications.

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 10/12/2023

A CONVERSATION WITH UKRAINE'S FINANCE MINISTER - Ukraine's Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko discusses Ukraine's growth trajectory, G7 support and the prospects of war insurance.

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 10/12/2023

PROTECTING US INTERESTS: HOW TO DEFEAT PUTIN AND SET UKRAINE ON THE PATH TO NATO - Next year’s NATO Summit in Washington, DC, will mark the 75th anniversary of the Alliance. At a time when the world faces the challenge of the increasing alignment between the world’s chief authoritarian powers—Rus...

“I address this award to all our sweet children who have been killed by Russian terrorists," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he accepted the Atlantic Council's 2023 Global Citizen Award in New York.

Held annually during the United Nations General Assembly week in New York, the At...

THE FUTURE OF EUROPE: COUNTERING CORRUPTION & ACCELERATING THE EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE - War has come to Ukraine through Russia’s illegal aggression—and just across the border, Moldova faces increasing pressure from Russia as well as spillover effects from Moscow’s aggression. Suppor...

WHAT’S NEXT FOR UKRAINE’S 2023 COUNTEROFFENSIVE? - Over the past three weeks, Ukraine’s three-month counteroffensive breached the first of Russia’s defensive lines in the south, took the town of Robotyne and made progress on the road to Tokmak, a key town in the direction of Melitopol. If Ukraini...

Ukraine’s remarkable resilience may prove decisive in the long war with Russia. From the war effort to the energy sector to tech and IT, Ukraine’s mobilization and defense have defied predictions from experts and U.S. intelligence. That’s the argument Peter Dickinson makes in a recent essay for t...

BREAKING THE BLACK SEA BRIGADE: HOW TO COUNTER RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE'S GRAIN - On July 17, Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in 2022 to allow for the safe navigation of Ukrainian grain exports and fertilizers from Ukraine amid ...

UKRAINIAN TENNIS STAR ELINA SVITOLINA ON SPORTS DIPLOMACY DURING WAR - The Atlantic Council and the Women’s Foreign Policy Group (WFPG) hosted an #ACFrontPage conversation with Ukrainian tennis champion Elina Svitolina. CBS News’s Margaret Brennan moderated the discussion on the role of sports di...

AFTER VILNIUS: WHAT'S NEXT ON UKRAINE'S PATH TO NATO - On several accounts, the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius was an historic occasion, marking Finland’s participation as a full member for the first time, announcing Turkey’s agreement to ratify Sweden’s membership application, and explicitly recogn...

AFTER VILNIUS: A VIEW FROM WARSAW ON THE NATO SUMMIT - Taking place immediately after the Vilnius NATO Summit, this event examined the outcomes of the summit from a US, Polish, and Swedish perspective including views from two analysts visiting Warsaw.

The conversation covered issues such as whet...

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis speak to Atlantic Council CEO Fred Kempe at the NATO Public Forum in Vilnius.

Held on the sidelines of the NATO summit on July 11-12, 2023, the Public Forum aims to promote a bette...

PUTIN’S PRIGOZHIN PROBLEMS: HOW HAS POWER SHIFTED IN RUSSIA? - What is happening in Russia? On June 24, Wagner Group leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin announced his dissatisfaction with the way Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu was running the war in Ukraine, declared the reasons the Kremlin gave...

AFTER PRIGOZHIN, WHAT’S NEXT FOR BELARUS? - Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka claims to have played a starring role in negotiating a settlement that halted Wagner Group leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s attempted mutiny and march on Moscow, and reportedly allowed the mercenary chief and some of...

STEPPING INTO FOCUS: AFRICA, BRICS, AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE - The 2023 BRICS Summit in South Africa and the recent trip to Kyiv and Moscow by a peace delegation of African leaders raise the question: What are African expectations around these international appearances? How will the continent step ...

HOW SHOULD THE US RESHAPE ITS RUSSIA POLICY? - Ukrainian forces’ stunning ability to resist Russia’s full-scale invasion has transformed the potential future of both Ukraine and Russia itself. The Kremlin’s large invasion in February of 2022 has left Russia more diplomatically and economically is...

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...

SECURING UKRAINE'S FUTURE IN NATO WITH ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN AND ANDRIY YERMAK - Join the Atlantic Council for an #ACFrontPage conversation with former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who also previously served as Danish Prime Minister, and Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of th...

HOW SUCCESSFUL HAS UKRAINE'S COUNTEROFFENSIVE BEEN SO FAR? - Ukraine began its long-anticipated counteroffensive in early June. Ukrainian forces have been striking at many points along the 1200-kilometer active front probing for weak spots in the fortifications that Moscow has had months to build...

US-CHINA LESSONS FROM UKRAINE: FUELING MORE DANGEROUS TAIWAN TENSIONS - Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security are pleased to host the launch of a new report, “US-China Lessons from Ukraine: Fueling More Dangerous Taiwan Tensions”, authored by Atlantic ...

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...