Atlantic Council

Orientation: Atlanticist, committed to close ties between North America and Europe and broadly pro-NATO; it calls itself nonpartisan and independent of the US government and NATO. Funding: foundations, corporations, individuals and governments; a 2025 Quincy Institute study found it received almost $21 million from foreign governments between 2019 and 2023, the most of any US think tank studied. Founded in 1961, the Atlantic Council became one of the loudest voices on the war in Ukraine, consistently arguing for arming Kyiv and against compromise with Moscow, and was the think tank most cited on the war by the three leading US newspapers. Its Digital Forensic Research Lab, set up in 2016, investigates online disinformation campaigns.