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This week’s edition brought to you by Daniel Hojnacki, Assistant Editor
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| | OCTOBER 12, 2024 | Amid consequential wars in Europe and the Middle East, intensifying competition among great powers, and high-stakes political contests in the United States and around the world, it’s more important than ever for policymakers to develop long-term strategies durable enough to survive the next news and election cycles. That’s where our experts come in. In Istanbul this week, the Atlantic Council hosted the Regional Conference on Clean and Secure Energy, featuring high-level discussions on the future of the energy transition and the international coordination required to achieve it. Our experts also released forward-thinking insight on issues including US policy toward Iran, the transatlantic partnership, China’s economic trajectory, and more below. | | |
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| |  Dealing with Iran. How should the United States confront Iran’s proxy network, nuclear ambitions, regional aggression, and internal repression? A new, first-of-its-kind bipartisan Iran Strategy Report seeks to answer these questions, with recommendations that can be implemented—and maintained—regardless of who occupies the White House in the years to come. Compiled by the Atlantic Council’s Iran Strategy Project, the report finds that Washington needs to adopt a more proactive and holistic approach that prevents Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon while halting its malign actions in the region, tightening international sanctions, and empowering the Iranian people. Read on for more findings from this comprehensive report. | | |
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| |  Atlantic counsel. Washington and Brussels face common challenges and are better off when they collaborate to solve them, argues a collection of essays from the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. In areas as varied as defense cooperation, support for Ukraine, the green transition, and digital policy, our experts have outlined avenues for the United States and European Union to ensure mutual security and prosperity—and craft a coordinated approach to cooperation with African nations and competition with China. Explore our experts’ recommendations for bolstering the US-EU partnership. | | |
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| |  The road not taken. The latest China Pathfinder Annual Scorecard, developed by the GeoEconomics Center and Rhodium Group, doesn’t hold back in describing Beijing’s economic trajectory over the past year: “In nearly every area we have tracked—financial system development, market competition, innovation, trade, and direct and portfolio investment—China’s progress has stalled or, in some cases, backslid.” As the report goes on to note, it’s not just China that needs to worry about the Chinese Communist Party’s failure to implement market reforms or turn around its sluggish economic growth. “The lack of clarity around China’s decision making is now seen as a source of global economic risk.” Take a deeper dive into Beijing’s challenges and how China stacks up against other advanced economies. | | |
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| |  Information warfare. Russia’s use of nuclear saber-rattling to coerce its neighbors and adversaries is well-known. But the Kremlin is wielding another narrative around nuclear weapons to undermine European security, write the Transatlantic Security Initiative’s Natasha Lander Finch and Ryan Arick. Natasha and Ryan shine a spotlight on Russia’s disinformation campaign to cast US-backed nonproliferation efforts as a smokescreen for plans to develop chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. Combating this false narrative, Natasha and Ryan write, will take active coordination, investment in independent media and community journalism, and more secure cybersecurity infrastructure. Read on for more ways to stop the proliferation of this nuclear disinformation campaign. | | |
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| |  Sticker shock. As tensions in the Middle East rise, one of many concerns for US policymakers is that escalating hostilities between Israel and Iran could cause global oil prices to spike. If that happens, the United States has a tool it shouldn’t be afraid to use to keep prices down, argues the Global Energy Center’s Joseph Webster. Joe makes the case for tapping the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), pointing out that “while the SPR’s crude oil inventory levels have fallen, US import needs have receded, even as US exports have surged.” Click here to read more of Joe’s explanation for this crude solution. |
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