New Atlanticist

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, […]

When National Security Overlaps with Human Security

By Derek Reveron

For the second time this year, naval forces have been involved in major operations that have little to do with combat at sea. Instead, Sailors and Marines operating from dozens of warships have responded to natural disasters. Earlier this year in Haiti, traditional warships delivered food, water, and medical supplies. On amphibious ships, the large […]