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Atlantic Update 4/25/11

New Atlanticist
Jul 29, 2025

The Russia pressure menu: Options to convince Putin to negotiate on Ukraine 

As the US president cuts his deadline for Russia to ten days, there are several options for him to increase pressure on Moscow to pursue peace.

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Atlantic Update 4/25/11

New Atlanticist
Jul 24, 2025

Dispatch from Manila: A lesson in calling out Chinese maritime aggression

By
Markus Garlauskas, Philip W. Yu

As the Philippines has focused more on Chinese threats to itself, Manila also seems increasingly inclined to see its own security as connected to that of the broader region.

China
Indo-Pacific

Atlantic Update 4/25/11

New Atlanticist
Jul 1, 2025

The US must enforce sanctions to prevent Iran from rebuilding its nuclear program

By
Kimberly Donovan

To ensure that Tehran cannot get its hands on the financial resources it would need to rebuild its nuclear program, Iran sanctions enforcement should start with China.

Economic Sanctions
Iran

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New Atlanticist

Apr 25, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/25/11

By Klee Aiken

With the rise of populist parties across the continent, is Europe moving the the right? ask the Spiegel Staff.  Russia makes long term plans in Sevastopol, NATO bombs Gaddafi’s compound, and German Foreign Minister Westerwelle comes under fire.

New Atlanticist

Apr 22, 2011

Europe Falters in Efforts to Implement the UN Resolution in Libya

By Hugh De Santis

NATO’s management of the UN-sanctioned campaign to take “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians is looking more futile by the day. Reminiscent of Europe’s hapless effort to assert leadership following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, internal bickering has once again precluded military cohesion and made mockery of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security […]

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

New Atlanticist

Apr 22, 2011

Chinese Takeaway

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

While World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis," China has broken ground and taken over the economic future of a country whose nearest island to the U.S. mainland is Bimini, only 50 miles away. The Nassau Guardian editorialized: "The Bahamas has fallen fully into the […]

Transatlantic

New Atlanticist

Apr 22, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/22/11

By Klee Aiken

With the White House looking to engage Moscow over tactical nuclear weapons reductions, Russia is out and about with Prime Minister Putin chatting with Vice President Joe Biden and President Medvedev meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Happy Birthday to Belgium on the first birthday of its record breaking stint without a government. Joyeux […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

Securing North Africa’s oasis of stability

By J. Peter Pham

As the cloud of uncertainty continues to hover North Africa—with the ultimate outcomes of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt still to be determined and unrest spreading in Algeria, especially in the Kabylie region, to say nothing of the fate of the revolt in Libya—it is somewhat befuddling that the Obama administration has not done […]

North & West Africa Sahel

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

Obama Administration and Pentagon Clashing Over Libya

By James Joyner

HuffPo’s David Wood begins a post titled "Obama White House, Pentagon At Odds Over Libya Policy" with this: After 26 months in office, President Obama still has not forged a smoothly working national security team that can both nimbly pounce on military crises and deftly manage festering problems, say current and former U.S. officials. As in previous […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

The Franglosphere – No, Not Bad BBC Science Fiction

By Julian Lindley-French

I was in London this week and two things happened that suggest l’albion perfide might be about to do the dirty on both America and France. First, in high-level meetings in the Ministry of Defence British officials confirmed that the disastrous 2010 Strategic Security and Defence Review (Strategic Pretence and Impecunity Review) had been the […]

European Union International Organizations
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New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2011

Atlantic Update 4/21/11

By Klee Aiken

While France might be "positive" about recognizing a Palestinian state,  the Economist suggests they are not so positive about their own future, possibly wrongly so. The international community struggles with the way forward in Libya and Britain and the Netherlands rebel against a proposed five percent EU budget increase.

New Atlanticist

Apr 20, 2011

NATO Mission Creep Underway

By James Joyner

A month to the day of my post Libya Mission Creep Inevitable, the creeping began in earnest with the announcement that the Brits and French will send in advisors to the Libyan rebels. Today, the Italians are following suit. One can almost hear the pitter-patter of American boots in the distance.

New Atlanticist

Apr 20, 2011

America Strikes Out

By Harlan Ullman

How will — or can — the United States deal with a superabundance of crises from the budget and looming fiscal disaster to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistani instability, the so-called Arab Spring and the Libyan campaign? The Obama White House and Congress agreed to a 2011 federal budget proudly promising and advertising […]

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