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New Atlanticist

Jul 25, 2012

Romney’s Trans-Atlantic Policy Needs a Reboot

By Annette Heuser and Tyson Barker

Mitt Romney’s first foreign tour as the Republican Party’s likely presidential candidate includes visits to two European states. While designed to send a message to potential voters at home, particularly blue-collar Reagan Democrats in the Midwest, the trip will be about photo opportunities. Romney’s visit to London is meant to echo his own successful management […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Jul 25, 2012

New EU mission to counter al Qaeda threat in Africa

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

From Adrian Croft, Reuters:  The European Union is to send experts to Niger to train its security forces to fight al Qaeda, signalling the depth of EU concern over the growing threat Islamist militancy poses to Africa’s Sahel region.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jul 25, 2012

How Obama lost Europe

By Mark Leonard, Foreign Policy

From Mark Leonard, Foreign Policy:  [President Barack] Obama’s stellar personal ratings in Europe hide the fact that the Western alliance has never loomed smaller in the imagination of policymakers on either side of the Atlantic.

Economy & Business United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jul 25, 2012

Ukraine’s Defense Minister: ‘We are ready to develop cooperation with NATO’

By the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

From the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: Ukrainian Defense Minister Dmytro Salamatin met with General Richard Shirreff, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, within an official visit of NATO delegation to Ukraine.

Ukraine

MENASource

Jul 25, 2012

Top News: Kandil: SCAF Will Choose New Defense Minister

By Tarek Radwan

The new defense minister will be nominated by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, newly-appointed Prime Minister Hesham Qandil told privately-owned satellite channel CBC. Qandil, a former irrigation minister, called the SCAF’s role in the revolution patriotic. 

NATOSource

Jul 25, 2012

‘Organic jointness?’ NATO’s Connected Forces Initiative

By Julian Lindley–French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley–French, the New Atlanticist:  NATO must contend with two competing and contending inner-realities

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 25, 2012

Euro-Realism 2: How Safe is My Money?

By Julian Lindley-French

Lucullus, in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens (spot the irony) warns, “This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.” As a Dutch tax-payer that warning carries little irony as billions of our hard-earned tax Euros have already vanished down the black hole of a failing currency – either in direct transfers […]

Economy & Business European Union

NATOSource

Jul 24, 2012

Turkey begins work on ICBM

By the Hurriyet Daily News

From the Hurriyet Daily News:  The Turkish Armed Forces have begun working on a project to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), broadcaster NTV reported on its website today.

New Atlanticist

Jul 24, 2012

Romania and Paraguay: A Transatlantic Parallel

By Faith Hanna

In the past month, two countries that began their transition towards democracy in 1989 experienced non-military coups of dubious legitimacy.

Eastern Europe

NATOSource

Jul 24, 2012

Diplomat: Russia stopped Assad from using chemical weapons two weeks ago

By Samia Nakhoul, Reuters

From Samia Nakhoul, Reuters:  Increasingly under pressure by rebels intent on unseating him, Bashar al-Assad has considered using chemical weapons against his enemies but Washington and Moscow have formed an unlikely alliance to force him to abandon such plans.

United States and Canada
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