Energy Security in the Americas
Latin American countries have a long history of swift regime change, either by coup or by legitimate institutional processes. The impetus is typically economic decline. […] More
Kaitlin Lavinder
Latin America: The New Frontier for Cyber Attacks
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the new frontier for cyber attacks, a crime that costs the world up to $575 billion a year, […] More
An Emerging Crime-Terror Nexus in Europe
An emerging nexus between terror and crime in Europe needs to be addressed with an even stronger nexus between law enforcement, the intelligence community, and […] More
Cocaine and Conflict in Colombia
For a very long time, the word that most often followed a mention of Colombia was cocaine. Colombia was the world’s largest producer of the […] More
NATO-Russia Dialogue Resumes, But Not Business as Usual
It’s not back to business as usual, but NATO and Russian ambassadors did meet in Brussels on Wednesday for the first time in two years. […] More
Quagmire in Yemen
The Saudis and the Houthis are not talking. Peace talks to end the conflict in Yemen were set to begin on Monday in Kuwait, but […] More
Brazil: Markets Bullish on Rousseff Impeachment Proceedings
367 members of Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted Sunday to advance impeachment proceedings aimed at ousting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. That’s 25 more votes […] More
Syria: Power-sharing, Partitioning, and the Fight Against ISIS
President Barack Obama is meeting today with his National Security Council at CIA headquarters to discuss efforts to combat the Islamic State (also known as […] More
The Modern NATO
The year was 1980, and the 21-year-old son of Norwegian Defense Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg accompanied his dad on a trip to the United States. The […] More
Kenya’s Battle with al-Shabaab
One year after the April 2015 attack that left 148 people dead at a university in Garissa, Kenya, a combination of forces is strengthening the […] More
Russia Makes Moves in the Middle East
Russia is playing a game of Bismarckian realpolitik in the Middle East – political maneuvering based on current conditions, rather than on ideological premises, that […] More
Poland: Thwarting Russian Geopolitics while Normalizing Relations
“Real deterrence means real presence,” said Poland President Andrzej Duda this morning at an event in Washington co-hosted by the Atlantic Council and the Center […] More
European Unity in the Face of Crises
Europe is used to dealing with crises. In fact, what we now call the European Union is a result of one of the biggest crises […] More