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Will Chinese Nationalism Lead to War with Japan and the United States?

New Atlanticist
Mar 6, 2025

How European leaders are responding to Trump’s approach to Ukraine and Europe

From London and Berlin to Paris and Brussels, European leaders have taken several notable steps this week on security. This follows the blow-up between the Ukrainian and US presidents on February 28.

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Will Chinese Nationalism Lead to War with Japan and the United States?

New Atlanticist
Feb 26, 2025

Why the US should not lift sanctions against Russia

By
Charles Lichfield

Sanctions are having an unmistakable effect, albeit below the inflated expectations of many in the West in early 2022. Lifting them now would be a mistake.

Conflict
Economic Sanctions

Will Chinese Nationalism Lead to War with Japan and the United States?

New Atlanticist
Mar 5, 2025

The Egyptian plan for postwar Gaza is a good starting point—but it needs changes

By
Thomas S. Warrick

While many obstacles remain, the Egyptian proposal could form the starting point for negotiations over a workable plan for postwar Gaza.

Conflict
Crisis Management

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New Atlanticist

May 7, 2013

Will Chinese Nationalism Lead to War with Japan and the United States?

By Banning Garrett

Will Chinese assertiveness and nationalism lead to war with Japan and the United States, trumping the impact of globalization and growing interdependence? A recent Financial Times commentary by John Plender recently raised this prospect, a familiar theme in much of the Western media and among Washington foreign policy pundits.

China East Asia

New Atlanticist

May 6, 2013

Syria and the Obama Administration’s Loss of Credibility

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

When it comes to maintaining military credibility in the face of potential national security threats, the Obama administration has gone out of its way to convince friend and foe alike that the president and the administration do not bluff when it comes to their foreign policy and national security goals and commitments.

National Security Security & Defense

Libya Working Group

May 6, 2013

Libya Needs the US for its Transition to Democracy

By Charles Dunne Stephen McInerney and Karim Mezran

Deborah Jones is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination as the new U.S. ambassador to Libya. This will present a stark reminder of the events that took the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012.

Libya

New Atlanticist

May 6, 2013

America’s Most Tolerated Dangers

By Harlan Ullman

If asked, most Americans would agree that economic and financial chaos or a stunning terrorist attack by foreign jihadis possibly with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction constitute among the gravest threats to the United States. But the United States faces other more immediate, yet tolerated, dangers that have done and are doing irreparable […]

National Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 3, 2013

A Turning Point in Malaysia’s Politics

By HuiHui Ooi

On Sunday, more than thirteen million will vote in what is likely to be the closest election in the history of Malaysia.  About 2.5 million of these voters are believed to be under the age of 30 and pro-opposition, a wildcard that Anwar Ibrahim’s People’s Alliance (PR) is counting on to bring Prime Minister Najib […]

Elections Indo-Pacific

Libya Working Group

May 3, 2013

Libyan Stability at Risk

By Jason Pack and Karim Mezran

Last week’s attack on the French Embassy in Tripoli was the first significant terrorist attack against foreign interests in the Libyan capital since the fall of Muammar al-Qaddafi. More crucially, it marks an escalation in the covert war being waged to determine the future orientation, institutions, constitution, and very soul of the new Libya. At […]

Libya

New Atlanticist

May 3, 2013

What Was Obama Thinking?

By Barry Pavel

What was President Obama thinking in August 2012 when he declared that Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria would alter his calculus and cross a red line, triggering U.S. intervention?

Security & Defense Syria

New Atlanticist

May 2, 2013

NATO’s Rasmussen Urges Striking New Transatlantic Deal

By James Joyner

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared Europe and North America “need to strike a new transatlantic deal” based on “people, science, and culture” in order to “make our community of values stronger, wider, and deeper.”

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 2, 2013

Kissinger to Clinton: At Least Four Secretaries of State Became President

By James Joyner

In a night filled with sober speeches on international security and economic issues, Henry Kissinger provided some levity concerning the rumored presidential aspirations one of the night’s awardees, Hillary Clinton.

New Atlanticist

May 2, 2013

Chevron CEO Calls for Business-Government Partnership to Promote American Values

By James Joyner

Chevron CEO John Watson declared that American corporations “working in partnership with government” can “effect positive change throughout the world” by “promoting American values abroad.”

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