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U.S. – Pakistan Capture Taliban Commander

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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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U.S. – Pakistan Capture Taliban Commander

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Jul 24, 2025

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

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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.

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U.S. – Pakistan Capture Taliban Commander

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.

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New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2010

U.S. – Pakistan Capture Taliban Commander

By James Joyner

The apparent capture of Afghan Taliban military commander Abdul Ghani Baradar is not only great news in NATO’s war against the militants but potentially a very strong signal of improved cooperation between Pakistan and the United States. Mark Mazzeti and Dexter Filkins broke the news this morning in the NYT. The Taliban’s top military commander […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2010

Taliban and Al Qaeda: A Shotgun Wedding

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

When U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed the Afghan war as his own the reason he gave was "because that’s where al Qaeda is."  In point of fact, al Qaeda skedaddled out of Afghanistan shortly after Oct. 7, 2001, when U.S. troops invaded.

New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2010

The Russo-Turkish Dance

By Nicholas Siegel

The great Romanov-Osman ball took place at the Russian Consulate in Istanbul. In the hall of mirrors, bewigged, liveried servants bowed as Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, a pretender to the Imperial Russian throne, and Prince Osman Selahaddin Osmanoglu, her Ottoman counterpart, emerged before the assembled guests. 

New Atlanticist

Feb 14, 2010

Just What Is The Real Level Of Government Debt In Europe?

By Edward Hugh

“If you don’t fully understand an instrument, don’t buy it.” To the above advice from Emilio Botín, Executive Chairman of Spain’s Grupo Santander, I would simply add one small rider:  Don’t sell it either, especially if you are a national government trying to structure your country’s debt.

New Atlanticist

Feb 12, 2010

Afghanistan Effort at Critical Juncture in 2010

By Ivo Daalder

President Obama’s decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan reflects the critical juncture reached by NATO and its partners, including the Afghan Government, in this eight-year engagement.   The international community has rallied to the cause with increased troop commitments. 

New Atlanticist

Feb 12, 2010

Euro Debt Crisis: A Discussion with Currency Strategist Marc Chandler

By Peter Cassata

In his latest New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri addresses the Euro debt crisis and the recent hedge fund betting of over $8 billion in short positions against the common EU currency.  He talks with Marc Chandler, the Chief Currency Strategist for the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 11, 2010

Europe or Europeans: Deciding the Transatlantic Future

By Robert Manning

It is difficult to escape the irony of a Europe who, after anxiously awaiting George W. Bush’s exit, is finding the current administration’s relations with the region are far from what was expected. “Obama disses Europe,” the Washington Post‘s Anne Applebaum writes,  is, “more or less, is how Europeans have described the American president’s decision […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 11, 2010

Eurozone and the Five Little PIIGS

By King Banaian

Greece has been the story underneath much of the financial markets this week. The problem is that while everyone wants to solve the problem with Greece’s sovereign debt crisis, nobody wants to put money behind it.

New Atlanticist

Feb 10, 2010

Hawk-Industrial Complex Hamstrings USA

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

"Clueless in Washington" was how The Economist, a British weekly read by movers and shakers the world over, headlined America’s crisis in governance. Neither the president nor Congress shows any sign of knowing how to tackle the budget deficit.

New Atlanticist

Feb 10, 2010

Pakistan-US Relations: A Marriage That Needs Work

By Harlan Ullman

For more than 60 years the U.S.-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair and who are at a loss on […]

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