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Guantanamo Detainees: The View from Europe

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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Guantanamo Detainees: The View from Europe

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

Guantanamo Detainees: The View from Europe

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

Aug 2, 2009

Guantanamo Detainees: The View from Europe

By Andrew Kessinger

Thanks to renewed transatlantic cooperation, President Barack Obama is one small step closer to keeping his campaign promise to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention center.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jul 31, 2009

Anders Fogh Rasmussen: NATO’s Last Secretary General?

By James Joyner

Denmark’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen officially takes over as head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization tomorrow.   A Guardian editorial muses that he may be “The last NATO secretary general.”

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 31, 2009

Russia’s Energy Weapon Could Take Aim at USA

By Alexandros Petersen

Recently the European Commission urgently recommended that all European Union member-state governments begin filling natural-gas storage facilities in preparation for energy cutoffs from Russia. If Russia’s Kremlin-controlled energy monopoly Gazprom gets its way, such emergency measures may also become a reality in the United States.

Energy & Environment Russia

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2009

World Reaction to Obama and the Gates Arrest: Yawn

By Adam Clayton Powell III

The reaction in much of the world was muted, or less. But in some countries that have racial tensions similar to the U.S., the coverage was less muted — and looked familiar.

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2009

Euro Catching Up to Dollar in Counterfeiting Game

By James Joyner

In a few short years, the euro has become the second-most-traded currency in the world.  Now, counterfeit euros are spreading faster than the real thing.

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2009

Obama’s Three Layered Foreign Policy

By Judah Grunstein

While James Joyner and others argue that President Barack Obama’s foreign policy so far represents a great deal of continuity with the final two years of the Bush administration, I see not so much an either/or comparison between the two, but rather a multi-layered model of Obama’s foreign policy.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2009

Taliban an Unflippable Enemy

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Geopolitical trendies ran a new one up the international flagpole to see if anyone saluted. It claimed to be the magic formula on “How to Win in Afghanistan.”

Afghanistan Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2009

Congress, Pork, and the F-22

By Bernard Finel

A frustrating tendency in media coverage of the defense budgeting process is the presumption that anything Congress adds to the Department of Defense’s budget request must be political pork (see, for example, “Pork-Laden Defense Bill Weighed“).

New Atlanticist

Jul 29, 2009

British Conservatives Back Away from Afghanistan

By Steve Hynd

In two scathing op-eds today, the conservative Daily Mail set out a framework for British conservative thinking on the ongoing Afghanistan occupation which is seriously at odds with their American cousins.

Afghanistan United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Jul 29, 2009

Flight of the F-22

By Harlan Ullman

‘Tis a pity that the F-22 Raptor was not named the Phoenix in the hopes that, despite the best attempts of Republican and Democratic presidents and secretaries of defense to contain the program, it would magically rise again from the ashes. Last week’s vote in the Senate sealed the fate of this most advanced fighter […]

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