Atlantic Council blogs

Arctic Climate Change Strategy

By Derek Reveron

Strategy is a roadmap that individuals, organizations, and countries use to advance interests over time. At a minimum, strategy is designed to prevent anticipated tragedies (such as conflict over a disputed territory) or at least be prepare for when tragedy strikes (e.g., humanitarian assistance after an earthquake). When it comes to climate change, emerging strategies […]

Singapore Security Motto: Be As One

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The rule book on unintended and unanticipated global disasters is yet to be written. In the past decade, the world has experienced several surprise disasters that dwarfed 9/11, in either casualties and/or cost — e.g., the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered a gigantic tsunami that killed more than 200,000 in 11 countries; the 2007 […]

Clinton Gains NATO Support for US Positions on Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defense

By the AP

From the AP:  During Thursday’s talks, Clinton ruled out an early withdrawal of about 200 short-range U.S. nuclear weapons from bases in five European countries. She said any reductions should be tied to a negotiated nuclear pullback by Russia, which has far more of the weapons in range of European targets. No such talks are […]

Russia Base Won’t Affect Ukraine NATO Prospect-NATO

By Reuters

Armenia Halts Ratification of Turkey Peace Deal

By Reuters

From Reuters: Armenia on Thursday suspended ratification of peace accords with Turkey, setting back to square one U.S.-backed efforts to bury a century of hostility between the neighbors. … "We have decided…not to exit the process for the timebeing, but rather, to suspend the procedure of ratifying the protocols. We believe this to be in […]

NATO Foreign Ministers Reach Agreement on Nuclear Issues and Missile Defense

By NATO

From NATO: Let me finally turn back to last night’s dinner discussions on nuclear issues and missile defence. Yesterday, before the dinner, I gave you my views on these issues. Now the discussion amongst all the Allies has begun, and I expect it to continue right up to November when the new Strategic Concept will […]

Bosnia Moves Forward on NATO Membership

By NATO

From NATO: We decided that as of yesterday, Bosnia and Herzegovina has entered the Membership Action Plan, the implementation of which will only begin fully when some clearly identified defence property is formally transferred from the entity level to the Ministry of Defence. I strongly welcome this decision. It reflects our shared view that the […]

Finishing The Job in Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo

By Kurt Volker

Remember Bosnia? Kosovo? In the 1990s, we learned a new phrase – ethnic cleansing – and we embarked on the first of what have now been many interventions in regional crises. Yet 15 years after the Serbian massacre of more than 7,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, we have still not finished the job of making the […]

Cut Short-Range Nukes, Too

By Ralston-Robertson-Miller-Schake

With the new START treaty and the Nuclear Posture Review accomplished, the Obama administration has an enormous opportunity to capitalize on its momentum. It should propose that NATO negotiate with Moscow to reduce the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.