Atlantic Council blogs

Russian “spy” in Poland sentenced to 3 years in prison

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  A Warsaw court has sentenced a Russian citizen to three years in prison for espionage, Polish media reported on Wednesday. Tadeusz J. was arrested on charges of gathering information about the Polish Army on behalf of Russia in February 2009. The 41-year-old detainee, who had been living in Poland for more than […]

Britain expels Russian spy for “overstepping the mark”

By Duncan Gardham and Andrew Osborn, the Telegraph

NATO Starts Cloud Computing

By John W. Miller, the Wall Street Journal

From John W. Miller, the Wall Street Journal:  NATO, whose headquarters are located near the Brussels airport, is touting its own entry into cloud computing.

Senate ratifies New START

By Mary Beth Sheridan and William Branigin, the Washington Post

From Mary Beth Sheridan and William Branigin, the Washington Post:  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a new nuclear arms-reduction treaty with Russia, the broadest such pact between the former Cold War foes in nearly two decades.

The “Donilon Doctrine” and Transatlantic Relations under Obama

By Jason Horowitz, the Washington Post

From Jason Horowitz, the Washington Post:  [Tom] Donilon has completed a metamorphosis three decades in the making, rising to the position of President [Barack] Obama‘s national security adviser and the patron saint of staffers.

“Belarus was playing off Russia, the E.U. and China”

By Judy Dempsey

From Judy Dempsey:  As demonstrators in the Belarussian capital of Minsk protested Sunday night against what they claimed were flawed presidential election results, the European Union looked on helplessly. Hundreds of people were beaten and imprisoned. The opposition’s offices were raided. Web sites of independent movements were shut down. Searches and house arrests of those […]

5 Questions for Boro Vucinic

By Damon Wilson and Matthew Czekaj

Boro Vucinic has served as Montenegro’s minister of defense since November 2006.  We had the opportunity to get his thoughts on some key issues of interest to our community.

Pakistan At The Brink

By Harlan Ullman

To many observers, Pakistan has long been at the brink of an existential crisis, much of it due to a growing insurgency exacerbated by the war in Afghanistan. But now the economy is in crisis, too. The catastrophic floods have imploded the struggling economy raising the specter of frightening consequences. Compounding that crisis is uncertainty […]

West Dominant But Divided

By Kenneth Weisbrode

Financial Times  columnist Philip Stephens argues we are "On the way to a New Global Balance” in which China, India, Turkey, Indonesia and perhaps others are gaining fast in the race to the top.