Atlantic Council

06/02/2026

US Embassy in Mexico’s Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs Jacqueline Ward says the World Cup is an opportunity to demonstrate results in the US-Canada-Mexico trilateral relationship.

Speaking at the Atlantic Council, Ward described how all three governments rapidly assembled an Ebola task force over a single weekend, adopting “harmonized measures” ahead of the World Cup.

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06/02/2026

“We have a major strategic advantage over China,” explains Melanie Hart, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub.

“Despite the billions of dollars China has thrown at its own indigenous aircraft, the C919, they can’t make an engine—so they are dependent on the US for engines and engine parts,” she tells Atlantic Council geoeconomics experts, Josh Lipsky and Jessie Yin.

“That is a chokehold that we can slam when there’s a crisis.”

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06/02/2026

How should the US position itself in the world following the Iran war? Should the US “pivot” away from the Middle East toward the Indo-Pacific?

Three of our leading experts Matthew Kroenig, Markus Garlauskas, and Beth Sanner share their insights:

Atlantic Council experts weigh in on whether the United States should “pivot” its attention away from the Middle East and toward the Indo-Pacific.

06/02/2026

LIVE | As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, experts discuss how the US and the Caribbean can deepen collaboration as they prepare for and respond to disasters.

06/01/2026

Abelardo de la Espriella and Iván Cepeda, who represent opposite ends of Colombia’s political spectrum, will move ahead to the June 21 presidential runoff.

Atlantic Council experts explain what to expect:

Abelardo de la Espriella and Iván Cepeda, who represent opposite ends of the political spectrum, will move ahead to the June 21 runoff.

06/01/2026

The GeoTech Center hosts an event to launch the flagship report of the Atlantic Council Commission on AI and US competitiveness, which presents an action-oriented roadmap for strengthening US domestic AI capacity.

06/01/2026

“In the midst of strained transatlantic relations, Tokyo is an ideal candidate to work alongside its Nordic security partners to safeguard an equitable economic market and open waters in the Arctic,” write Kyoko Imai, Connor McPartland, and Audrey Roh in an issue brief.

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Climate change and aggressive moves by Russia and China to stake out claims in the High North pose serious challenges to the rules-based order that has until recently governed the Arctic.

05/31/2026

“The policymaking community is not fully aware of the expansion of the threat from toxins, instead focusing on contagious biological threats arising from viruses and bacteria.”

In a new report, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense at the Atlantic Council outlines the threat and how to negate it.

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The policymaking community is not fully aware of the expansion of the threat from toxins.

05/29/2026

“Getting Iran to the table is relatively easy. Making a deal is harder. Implementing a deal is all that really matters.”

As President Trump inches closer to a potential deal with Iran, the Atlantic Council’s Abram Paley and Nate Swanson explain why signing a deal is only the beginning:

Abram Paley and Nate Swanson helped negotiate the last US-Iran deal, a 2023 prisoner exchange. Here's what they learned and how it applies to today's talks.

05/29/2026

“Treating Madagascar as a curiosity—colorful, remote, and tangential to US interests—would risk overlooking an emerging arena of great power competition and ceding ground in critical mineral supply chains,” write Maureen Farrell and Rose Keravuori.

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Madagascar is emerging as a new arena of great-power competition, with critical minerals drawing growing US and Russian interest.