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New Atlanticist

May 6, 2010

Greek Meltdown Sends Dow Plunging

By James Joyner

It has long been an axiom that, "When America sneezes, the world catches a cold."  But, in the era of globalization, it works both ways. AP business writer Tim Paradis: Stocks plunged Thursday as investors succumbed to fears that Greece’s debt problems would halt the global economic recovery. The Dow Jones industrials slid almost 1,000 […]

New Atlanticist

May 5, 2010

World Needs Strong, Independent Britain — And the Special Relationship

By Kurt Volker

It has become disturbingly fashionable to vow that Britain must not “slavishly follow America.” David Cameron has said it. Nick Clegg has said it. And I agree. Nor should Britain “slavishly follow” Luxembourg. Or Burma. Or even the Galapagos Islands, green as they may be. These latter examples are, of course, throw-aways. It is the […]

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New Atlanticist

May 5, 2010

Tough Choices Make for Bad Governance

By Harlan Ullman

Well over a century ago, Karl Marx announced that a specter of communism was haunting Europe. Tragically, he was correct as 70 years of Bolshevism proved. Today, another specter is haunting the world with possibly a greater vengeance.

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New Atlanticist

May 4, 2010

Greek Bailout Greeted with Rioting and Skepticism

By James Joyner

The EU and IMF — but not Germany and France — have agreed on a €110bn bailout for Greece and the Papaconstantinou government has admitted to "mistakes" and announced its "absolute determination to tackle this and, secondly, to get out of the recession earlier."  But while the parliament is debating the austerity measures, analysts are saying […]

New Atlanticist

May 4, 2010

Gulf Oil Disaster and America’s Energy Future

By Robert Manning

It wasn’t supposed to happen. Oil rigs have devices known as blowout preventers that are supposed to stop the oil flows when incidents like the explosion occur. No less disconcerting, it is still not clear why the device did not activate to prevent what appears to be a growing environmental disaster.

New Atlanticist

May 3, 2010

Pakistan’s Homegrown Extremists

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Pakistan is still producing an estimated 10,000 potential jihadis a year out of 500,000 graduates from Pakistan’s 11,000 madrassas —  young gung-ho boys, mostly 16-year-olds, who finish 10 years of Koranic cramming and who can then recite the holy book by heart in Arabic. That means 114 suras (chapters), 6.247 ayats (verses), or 78,000 words. […]

New Atlanticist

May 3, 2010

A New Peace Dividend?

By Don Snow

One of the clear political lessons (if there are any) of the “great recession” from which the country is slowly emerging is that the United States cannot afford everything, since unbridled spending in the absence of additional public revenues (taxes) means a burgeoning deficit that will be handed down to future generations.

New Atlanticist

May 3, 2010

Pakistan: A Comprehensive Approach

By Luv Puri

Pakistan is one of the most volatile regions in the world today and the situation in that country threatens the world peace. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who masterminded the September 11, 2001 terrorist strike in New York, was arrested in Pakistan; the London bombings of July 7, 2005 were carried out by Pakistani-origin terrorists; and the […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2010

Bill Clinton: Rock Star

By Bono

There are professors who pretend to be populists and populists who pretend to be professors. But there have never been a head and heart so perfectly matched as the pair within William Jefferson Clinton. It’s an impossible equilibrium: wonky intellectual meets “Oh, hell” card player, oxygen and hydrogen. He defies the laws of physics as […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 30, 2010

Great Atlanticists on Atlanticism

By James Joyner

The purpose of the Council’s annual Leadership Awards is to honor Americans and Europeans who have made exceptional and distinctive contributions to the strengthening each of the four pillars of the transatlantic relationship: political, military, business, and humanitarian.  In their acceptance speeches, each of the 2010 honorees taught us a little something about being an […]