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New NATO Strategic Concept Should Work With Russia and Keep Europe Up

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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New NATO Strategic Concept Should Work With Russia and Keep Europe Up

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

New NATO Strategic Concept Should Work With Russia and Keep Europe Up

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

Mar 10, 2010

New NATO Strategic Concept Should Work With Russia and Keep Europe Up

By Harlan Ullman

When asked why NATO was strategically important, British Gen. Hastings Ismay wryly answered, “To keep America in, the Soviets out and the Germans down.” Today, more than punchy slogans are needed as the centerpiece for strategy.

New Atlanticist

Mar 9, 2010

What Should NATO’s Strategic Concept Say About Russia?

By Tomas Valasek

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO has strived to reduce mutual suspicions with Russia and to build a more co-operative relationship. So it is vexing that 20 years on, Russia continues to view NATO as a hostile alliance.

New Atlanticist

Mar 9, 2010

Whither Turkey?

By Ziya Meral and Jonathan Paris

Recent arrests and the questioning of top military commanders over an alleged plot to create chaos in Turkey have many in the international media and elsewhere wondering if the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, which came to power in 2002, is spearheading an Islamist takeover.

New Atlanticist

Mar 8, 2010

Russia: NATO Member?

By James Joyner

Should NATO invite Russia to join?  The idea isn’t as crazy as it sounds.

New Atlanticist

Mar 8, 2010

Iraq Vote Hype Premature

By Don Snow

Iraqis went to the polls this weekend in long-anticipated and amidst much analysis and predictions. Given the trillion-plus dollars the United States has dropped in Iraq, our interest in seeing how well we have invested is not surprising.

Nuclear ICBM

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2010

Are Nuclear Weapons Obsolete?

By James Joyner

Do all sane people agree that a nuclear weapons-free world would be best?  Are nuclear weapons militarily obsolete, desirable only for political posturing? That seems to be the consensus of an influential group of European leaders making the rounds in Washington this week. Earlier this week, the Atlantic Council hosted a delegation from the  Pugwash […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2010

Armenia Genocide: Turkey Relations Damaged Over History Lesson

By James Joyner

Once again, the United States Congress — famously unable to reach accord on even simple matters of domestic policy — has spent its precious time making a point of officially calling the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 genocide.  

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2010

Evaluating a “Surge”

By Don Snow

Since the American offensive in Iraq in 2007 designed to suppress the Sunni-led insurgency in central Iraq, the term "surge" has entered the lexicon of American military activities, achieving an almost iconic position as the answer to multiple politico-military problems.

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2010

Is Qatar the New Dubai?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

For years, the new Hong Kong was Dubai, one of seven United Arab Emirates and a one-time smuggling port on the Persian Gulf, now the latest casualty of "Wild East" casino capitalism.

New Atlanticist

Mar 4, 2010

Iran: China 1972 or Russia 1987?

By James Joyner

Should the United States try to reach a grand rapprochement with Iran in the manner of our opening to China under Nixon?  Or should we instead overtly support domestic reformers and try to topple the regime as we did with the Soviet Union under Reagan? 

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