Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves addressed the Atlantic Council on March 19 as part of the Global Leadership Series. Atlantic Council Board Director and CEO of LexisNexis, Andrew Prozes, provided introductory remarks while Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the Atlantic, moderated the Q&A session.

The Atlantic Council and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation co-hosted a panel discussion on the future of NATO Nuclear Policy, based on the recent publication of two reports from FES/SIPRI and the Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group on the issue.

On March 18, the Atlantic Council hosted a conference with senior administration officials, experts, and authoritative Europeans to assess the alternative futures for U.S. force posture in Europe. The event, generously sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton with support from L-3 Services Group, featured Dr. Janine Davidson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Plans, U.S. and European points of view in two separate panels, and Representative Jim Marshall (D-GA), Member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Within the context of a broadening U.S.-India strategic relationship, the Energy and Environment Program is launching a series of workshops to addresses the legislative and technological options needed to create a sustainable energy structure in these two nations.  On March 16-18, 2010 the Atlantic Council’s Program on Energy and Environment will host the first event in this series in conjunction with the U.S. -India Business Council and the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi, India.

Today the Atlantic Council hosted Slovak Minister of Defense Jaroslav Baška and General Ľubomír Bulík, Chief of the General Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces, for a NATO Forum strategy session.

On March 15, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg delivered remarks at the Atlantic Council, outlining the foreign policy approach the Obama administration has taken since taking office over a year ago.

General Stéphane Abrial of France, Commander of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT), spoke before the Atlantic Council about ACT’s efforts to improve Alliance capabilities to meet current and future challenges as well as ACT's role in NATO’s next Strategic Concept.

A panel of Iran experts addressed the "best-case scenario" for U.S.-Iran relations at the Atlantic Council.  Dr. Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East scholar at the Congressional Research Service, presented his Atlantic Council-commissioned Compendium of Policies, Laws and Regulations that govern U.S. relations with Iran, and the discussion followed.

From March 5-7, the Atlantic Council, in partnership with Wilton Park, the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique and the Royal United Service Institute, held a conference on "The Transatlantic Strategic Partnership in a Globalised World" in the United Kingdom. The conference was co-sponsored by NATO and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and was chaired by Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) member Robert Hunter.