Publications

This valuable report calls for re-energized transatlantic leadership in defining the global financial architecture, spells out the serious consequences of uncoordinated action, and presents concrete o...chevron_right

This report describes the major aspects of India’s current strategies for addressing current energy shortages and for the future dramatic expansion of electric power and transportation fuels. The US h...chevron_right

Julian Lindley-French and Yves Boyer have led an Atlantic Council Strategic Advisors Group project called STRATCON 2010 to provide provocative ideas and fresh thinking concerning the NATO Strategic Co...chevron_right

In the coming months, the Obama Administration will participate in three important summits that could shape the future Euro-Atlantic security environment. The Administration needs to connect the three...chevron_right

This report analyzes the gap between current international governance institutions, organizations and norms and the global governance demands that will likely emerge in the next 15 years. The report i...chevron_right

What is the optimal strategy for the US and its allies to pursue in Afghanistan? There is increasing consensus that Pakistan - a refuge for important al-Qaeda figures, and also under attack by insurge...chevron_right

NATO must do more with less. The only way this can work is to exercise our intellects and brainpower. That leads to the absolute need for a continuous learning process in which knowledge and understan...chevron_right

For the Comprehensive Approach to function at the Alliance-level, the new Strategic Concept must promote a level of ambition to use NATO to that effect. Indeed, the Comprehensive Approach must be seen...chevron_right

This report reflects on the past year’s efforts to repair the US–Pakistan relationship and how a new American administration, key pieces of legislation, and shifting Pakistani domestic politics have b...chevron_right

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) enters the second decade of the twenty-first century as an essential source of stability in an uncertain and unpredictable world. Looking ahead, the Allia...chevron_right

The Atlantic Council Program on Energy and the Environment convened a one-day workshop on October 26, 2009, “Perspectives on a Realistic United States Electric Power Generation Portfolio: 2010 to 2050...chevron_right

Today’s NATO is not the NATO of the Cold War. Nor is it even the NATO of just a decade ago. If the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and then the USSR were not enough to fundamentally alter the geopoliti...chevron_right

Our ports and waterways remain woefully vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Nearly a decade after 9/11 revolutionized aviation security, we are long overdue to apply many of those lessons learned to mari...chevron_right

In launching the Strategic Advisors Group’s STRATCON 2010 project, General Brent Scowcroft underscored the need of a new Strategic Concept to answer, “What is NATO for?” As NATO leaders debate this qu...chevron_right

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is overseeing the drafting of NATO’s latest Strategic Concept, set to replace the current version approved in 1999. Even though only a decade has passed, c...chevron_right