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IMF-World Bank Week at the Atlantic Council

April 21-25, 2025

The Atlantic Council will host a series of special events in Washington, DC with finance ministers and central bank governors from around the globe during the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Global Foresight 2025

In this year’s Global Foresight edition, our experts share findings from our survey of global strategists on how the next decade could unfold. Our team of next-generation scholars spot “snow leopards” that could have major unexpected impacts in 2025 and beyond. And our foresight practitioners imagine three different scenarios for the next decade.

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MIDDLE EAST

Israel-Hamas War

Experts from across the Atlantic Council are providing insight and analysis at speed and in depth on how the conflict is upending the Middle East and the world.

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Experts react: Is the US really going to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip?

by Atlantic Council experts

With his comments this week, the US president appears to be taking US policy toward Gaza in the direction of direct involvement—or is he?

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What the Gaza war reveals about the limitations of missile defense

by Jean-Loup Samaan

The Gaza War serves as a cautionary tale about what missile defense can achieve, what it should achieve, and where it falls short.

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2023/2024 Annual Report

2023 was the most successful year in the Atlantic Council’s history when measured by our growth, our impact, and our high-quality work across our sixteen programs and centers.

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Russia's war on Ukraine

As Russian’s war against Ukraine grinds on, Atlantic Council experts are closely monitoring the latest developments and analyzing the paths forward.

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Russia Tomorrow

Sanctioned kleptocracy: How Putin’s kremligarchs have survived the war—and even prospered

by Ilya Zaslavskiy

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores how Russia’s kleptocratic networks infiltrated the West and measures the US and Europe can take to combat the malign influence of Russian kleptocracy around the globe.

UkraineAlert

Russia’s war against the West will continue until Putin tastes defeat

by Andriy Zagorodnyuk

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is part of a far larger war against the West. If he succeeds in Ukraine, Putin aims to destroy the existing rules-based world order and usher in a new era dominated by a handful of great powers, writes Andriy Zagorodnyuk.

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