Constanze Stelzenmüller, of the German Marshall Fund, discusses Afghanistan’s future after 2014 with Leela Ponappa, former deputy national security advisor of India.

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds report is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council's series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. The report predicts the four mega trends that we might see in coming years.These are individual involvement, diffusion of power, demographic patterns, and growing food, water, and energy nexus.

In this video, Transatlantic Academy Compagnia di San Paolo Fellow Ruth Hanau Santini analyzes the origins of Beppe Grillo’s popularity in the recent Italian elections.

For the last decade, much of the transatlantic discourse has been driven by the question of what European partners can do to support U.S. strategy in key regions, and on critical issues. Successive U.S. administrations have pressed European governments to increase their defense spending, enlarge and extend their commitments in Afghanistan, and uphold a common front on the Iranian nuclear challenge. In the Balkans and North Africa, the United States has grown increasingly comfortable with the idea of Europe taking the lead. Absorbed with its own economic challenges since 2008, the United States has taken an arms-length approach to Europe's financial and political travails, but with a clear preference for stimulus over austerity. On a range of global issues, including climate policy, Washington has been reluctant to embrace an ambitious approach. The growing U.S. attention to Asia in strategic terms has only reinforced Washington's interest in seeing Europe emerge as a more active and capable global actor. It has also spurred European anxiety about changing U.S. priorities.