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Georgia Gives Up MAP, but Expects to Join NATO Anyway

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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Georgia Gives Up MAP, but Expects to Join NATO Anyway

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

Georgia Gives Up MAP, but Expects to Join NATO Anyway

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

Apr 13, 2011

Georgia Gives Up MAP, but Expects to Join NATO Anyway

By Matthew Czekaj

It should now be crystal clear: Georgia no longer wants a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for NATO accession. But it still expects to become a member of the Alliance. 

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 13, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/13/11

By Klee Aiken

The trial of Geert Wilders on the charge of "inciting hate" resumes in Amsterdam amidst the controversial decision by France to ban the wearing of a burqa. While the European Union mulls extending the single market across the Mediterranean, the drawing power of membership begins to wane as many in Croatia see the topic as […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2011

Eurozone Humor

By James Joyner

This one is apparently making the rounds: "A German, a Greek, an Irishman and a Portuguese go into a bar. The German pays." via Aaron Ellis

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 12, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/12/11

By Klee Aiken

Russia celebrates the 50th anniversary of manned space flight while Libya, the finances of Portugal and Iceland, and terrorist attacks keep most of Europe grounded.

New Atlanticist

Apr 11, 2011

Should Transparency Stop at the Water’s Edge?

By James Joyner

 In an article for CNN titled "Is it OK for spy agency chiefs to tell the truth?" former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden proclaims, "Jim Clapper was right all along!"

New Atlanticist

Apr 11, 2011

A Thaw in Ukraine?

By Adrian Karatnycky

The recent indictment of former President Leonid Kuchma for abuse of power in the case of the murder in 2000 of investigative journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has sent shockwaves through the Ukrainian body politic.

Ukraine
Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 11, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/11/11

By Klee Aiken

Europe is divided as the Netherlands and the U.K. sue Iceland, politics cloud the one year anniversary of the air disaster in Smolensk,  and Italy uses "dirty tricks" to deal with the influx of refugees.

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2011

Libya SNAFU: You Get What You Train For

By James Joyner

Continuing problems with the coalition operation in Libya reinforce an old military adage: You fight like you train. Yesterday, we learned that Swedish jets were grounded because the air base didn’t stock the right type of fuel. Today, we learned Libyan rebels were painting their vehicles pink after yet another incident in which NATO mistakenly fired on them, […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2011

Global Domestic Politics

By Frederick Kempe

One of the most important findings in my new book, Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, is that domestic politics shapes foreign policy in ways that most historians have failed to adequately recognize. In 1961, when the Berlin Wall went up, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was fighting off challenges of […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2011

Britain Seeks Greater Pakistani Role in Securing Domestic Security Issues

By Luv Puri

The writing on the wall was clear when the British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Pakistan. The main agenda of the prime minister’s visit was to repair the soured relations between Britain and Pakistan. The relations dipped last year during the last visit of British Prime Minister to India when he lambasted Pakistani government for […]

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