New Atlanticist

EU Gets Tough on Iran

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

The European Union sometimes earns well-deserved criticism for its foreign policy. But praise should be given where praise is deserved – and the EU’s latest effort to target Iran with tough autonomous sanctions is one such case. Clearly, the measures the EU adopted on July 26 can be further expanded. More can be done. But […]

Eurasia Reimagined

By Samuel Charap and Alexandros Petersen

As Kyrgyzstan descended into chaos after President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was ousted in April 2010, most observers were focused on the fate of the key U.S. airbase there. They feared that Moscow had orchestrated the unrest as revenge for Bakiyev reneging on his alleged promise to shut down the base and would now demand that the […]

Iraq: Mission Accomplished…Again

By Derek Reveron

Pakistan At Risk: Rains or Guns of August?

By Harlan Ullman

As the rains continue and floodwaters roar into Sindh and Punjab, the future of Pakistan as both a state and nation is in grave doubt. To understand the magnitude of this catastrophe, imagine if in the United States much of the landmass from Boston to New Orleans east of the Mississippi was under 20 feet […]

France’s Economic Recovery Targets Impressive or Unrealistic? View from Europe

By Scott Bleiweis

While neighboring Germany has been praised for record levels of economic growth, France has been criticized for setting targets it will have a hard time reaching. Even though the French government recently reduced its economic growth targets for 2011 from 2.5% to 2.0%, some think the lower figure is still too optimistic.

Pakistan Flooding of Biblical Proportions

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Pakistan Flood Recovery: Can Zardari Deliver Aid?

By Shuja Nawaz

The current flood in Pakistan is the worst ever-natural disaster to strike that country even as it is fighting an existential threat from a major Taliban insurgency inside its Western border. The grim situation: 20 million homeless, a fifth of the country affected by floodwaters, and a government that was unprepared, despite warnings from its […]

Ukraine Boosts State Control

By Alexandra Hrycak

I see that Adrian Karatnycky, author of "Orange Peels," asks us to take a close look at the pattern of behavior exhibited by the Yanukovych administration over the past half year. Upon doing so, he says in reply to recent critical discussions of his piece, we will see that Ukrainians are "tired of protesting" (but […]

Ukraine’s Leadership: Follow-up

By Alexander Motyl

This discussion of Yanukovych is beginning to resemble the kind of conversations I used to have with Soviets back in the days of the Cold War. You say A, they say –A. You say B, they say –B. After a while, you begin to realize that you and they inhabit different worlds, have different values, […]