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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.

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

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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Nov 7, 2012

Obama’s Lessons for Europe

By Julian Lindley-French

James Freeman Clarke once said, “A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.” President Obama has just been re-elected by the next generation. Now is his chance to be the statesman he needs to become.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Nov 7, 2012

A Real Presidential Agenda

By Harlan Ullman

The only downside to writing a Wednesday column recurs every fourth November and the day after the United States’ presidential elections.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Nov 6, 2012

Status Quo Election

By James Joyner

Today, Americans elect the man who will be president for the next four years. From a foreign policy standpoint, at least, we’re likely in for the status quo–and not just because President Obama is likely to be re-elected. Buried in the election eve Gallup poll, which headlines Romney’s microscopic 49 percent to 48 percent lead over […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Nov 6, 2012

Election Day 2012: Another UNIVAC Moment!

By Paul Saffo

On election night 60 years ago, CBS News used a UNIVAC I computer to predict that Eisenhower would win the 1952 presidential election by a landslide.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Nov 6, 2012

Israel and US – Divergent Views Over Iran’s Nuclear Threat

By Jonathan Paris

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations in September 2012 that Iran is between six and eight months away from having sufficient enriched uranium to make a bomb.

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

Nov 5, 2012

What Can Hurricane Sandy Tell Us About Climate Change?

By Paul Saffo

Linking a single storm to climate change is perilous at best for the simple reason that anything less than a decade or two of data isn’t climate, it’s just weather. But Sandy may yet prove the exception owing to its sheer anomalousness.

Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Nov 5, 2012

Anatomy of a Deal with Iran

By Rajan Menon

The on-again, off-again musings about a deal between Washington and Tehran are on again. A deal might reconcile the most important demands of each side: Iran’s insistence that it has a legal right to an independent fuel cycle for what it insists is a nonmilitary nuclear program and the declaration of the United States that […]

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2012

Peace Prize an Important Warning Sign for Europe

By Daria Dylla

The recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union can be interpreted as a strong and important message to every single European: think about the disastrous consequences if the European project fails.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2012

Britain’s Decade of Choices

By Julian Lindley-French

As I write this I am sitting in the Senate Chamber of Church House at the Chief of the Royal Air Force’s air power conference organised by the Royal United Services Institute. Church House is the Supreme Spiritual Headquarters of the Church of England and there can be no better place to discuss the future […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 1, 2012

Pakistan’s Heavyweights

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan’s national hero who peddled nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya (under Moammar Gadhafi), now has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions. He is also a media columnist and his anti-U.S. lucubrations are read in both English and Urdu.

Nuclear Nonproliferation Pakistan

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