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Select Foreign Response to the U.S. International Cyber Strategy

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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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Select Foreign Response to the U.S. International Cyber Strategy

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

Select Foreign Response to the U.S. International Cyber Strategy

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 31, 2011

Select Foreign Response to the U.S. International Cyber Strategy

By Jason Healey

The Obama Administration’s International Cyber Strategy, launched last week, was met by the Russian and Chinese press with a mix of generally negative reactions. The most negative were rooted in skepticism and mistrust about U.S. motives as well as perceived hypocrisy underlying the proposed cyber standards.

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 31, 2011

Time for Peace Talks

By Maleeha Lodhi

In more ways than one, Osama bin Laden’s death has changed the dynamic in the region and offered a new opportunity to pursue a political settlement to end the almost decade long war in Afghanistan. Bin Laden’s killing by a covert American mission has injected unprecedented strains in the long troubled Pakistan-US relationship. But in […]

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2011

Warsaw, Wroclaw and Transatlantic Priorities

By Ian Brzezinski

This week Poland will host President Obama and twenty European heads of state. The Warsaw summit presents an important opportunity to reinforce consensus and joint action in the realms of security, economic cooperation, and the promotion of democracy in and beyond Europe. The meeting will set the tone for Poland’s approaching EU Presidency and is […]

Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2011

US and Poland: What Unites Us?

By Bart Szewczyk

 In preparation for President Obama’s upcoming trip to Warsaw, the US Embassy in Poland ran a contest asking Polish citizens, “What unites us”?  It is an equally fundamental issue for American citizens.  Indeed, the close partnership between the US and Poland over the past two decades—built on a historical bond between the two peoples forged […]

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2011

Balkans 2011: A Road Not Travelled?

By Julian Lindley-French

“Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference”. So wrote American poet Robert Frost a century ago. He could have been speaking of my Balkan experience. Has a corner been turned? Ratko Mladic has been arrested. Or, […]

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2011

Arab Spring’s Somber Warning

By Harlan Ullman

This column has forecast how the Arab Spring could too easily metastasize when or if the powerful causal forces of great public discontent aren’t dispersed or reliever.  What is interesting is to speculate whether the power of discontent could spread and not merely within the region. What is happening in Europe and in the United […]

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2011

Obama’s Crucial Moment in Poland

By Kurt Volker Vejvoda Damon Wilson

President Obama’s visit to Europe this week is giving him the opportunity to bury once and for all perceptions that have dogged his administration from the outset: that the US has lost interest in Europe, and has put a higher priority on resetting relations with an authoritarian Russia than it has on the completion of […]

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2011

Ratko Mladic Arrest Paves Way for Serbia EU Accession

By James Joyner

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general blamed for the massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, has been caught after 16 years on the run from a UN war crimes indictment. Serbian President Boris Tadic announced the arrest this morning, proclaiming "All war criminals must face justice" and promising speedy extradition to The Hague for […]

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May 26, 2011

Resetting the Transatlantic Partnership

By James Joyner

 While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament  hit all the right notes. He began with some humor: I am told that the last three speakers here have been the Pope, Her […]

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2011

USA and the ICC: An Unfinished Debate

By Robert Bracknell

 I recently returned from a week in Iraq, where I trained an elite security force unit on human rights and the law of combat operations. Discussions regarding the responsibility of commanders for the acts of their forces migrated to the issue of the United Nations’ International Criminal Court. One Iraqi officer asked me, "If the […]

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