Atlantic-community.org’s editorial team summarizes the best reports from the world’s most renowned think tanks.
Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt
Since September 11, 2001, the idea that terrorist attacks are planned in distant failed states has snowballed into a new understanding of an omnipresent threat. Silber and Bhatt, two senior intelligence analysts working for the New York City Police Department …More
Gareth Stansfield
Stansfield advises that Iraq can no longer be expected to survive as an undivided entity. This is just one of a number of realities which coalition forces in the country must accept before they can devise practical and realistic policy management plans.
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Syed Saleem Shahzad
Takfirism: The Root of the Problem
In addition to its pursuit of US and European targets in the global jihad, al-Qaeda has sought out “bad Muslims,” and governments that have cooperated with the West. The reasoning comes from al-Qaeda’s adherence to Takfirism, a …More
Frédéric Grare
The military regime in Pakistan is responsible for the escalation of terror in Kashmir, the growth of international jihad extremism and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, says Grare. By supporting and training those very forces which NATO is currently …More
The Aon Corporation
Business companies now face global risks which change faster and more often than before, making country-by-country interpretation difficult. As a result, the danger that terrorism poses to economic investment remains high, …More
John Williams
Rewards For A New Way of Doing Business
More and more banks are embracing sustainable banking as a strategy to gain a competitive advantage, reports Williams. This is no mere Western phenomenon – the FT Sustainable Banking Awards show that banks …More
Karim Sadjadpour
Only a broad coalition which includes the United States, European Union, Russia, China and India can successfully replace the West’s failed attempts to negotiate with Iran. Karim Sadjadpour, an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for …More
Heino Fassbender
The Productivity Gap
Europe still lags behind the US in per capita productivity by as much as 32%. Worse still, a transatlantic comparison by sector indicates that official statistics overstate European labor productivity by …More
C. Fred Bergsten
The US global merchandise trade and current account deficit in 2006 was the largest ever recorded by one country, amounting to $857 billion in 2006. On the opposite side of the spectrum, China’s current account surplus for 2007 will …More
Tony Tassell and Joanna Chung
The Good
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), schemes to invest the growing foreign exchange reserves of nations, have mushroomed in size over the last five years. Morgan Stanley estimated in March that the total funds at the disposal of SWFs amount to approximately …More
