Who We Are

The New Atlantic Initiative (NAI) is an international nonpartisan organization dedicated to revitalizing and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies.

Objective

NAI's central objective is to strengthen Atlantic cooperation in the post-cold war world by bringing together Americans and Europeans to work toward common goals, including:

• The reinvigoration of Atlantic institutions of political cooperation and consultation.
  

• The admission of Europe's fledgling democracies into the institutions of Atlantic defense and European economic cooperation, notably NATO and the European Union.
  

• The establishment of free trade between an enlarged European Union and the North American Free Trade Area as a complement to strengthening global free trade.
  

NAI also sponsors conferences, debates, and roundtable discussions in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.

History

The New Atlantic Initiative was launched May 10-12, 1996, at the Congress of Prague, where over 300 political, intellectual, and business leaders gathered to debate the new agenda for transatlantic relations. In June 1996, NAI was established as a public policy research center. It is headquartered at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. 

Patrons

The Hon. José María Aznar
The Hon. Leszek Balcerowicz
The Hon. Václav Havel
The Hon. Henry Kissinger
The Hon. Helmut Schmidt
The Hon. George Schultz
The Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher

International Advisory Board

* suspended while on government service