Category: Blogs

Yes to Missile Defense, With Russia

By Wolfgang Ischinger

The NATO summit in Chicago starting on Sunday is expected to declare an “interim capability” of a NATO missile defense shield. Although Russia had been invited by NATO at its summit in Lisbon in 2010 to cooperate in setting up a joint ballistic missile defense system, or B.M.D., the alliance is now poised to proceed […]

New Foreign and Defense Ministers Named in France

By France 24

Germany’s Reputation in NATO Has Hit Rock Bottom

By Ulrike Demmer and Christoph Schult, Spiegel

Taking Stock of the Atlantic Alliance

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the New York Times

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the New York Times:  As secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I travel often to Washington.

How NATO Can Revitalize Its Role

By Fred Kempe, the New Atlanticist

From Fred Kempe, the New Atlanticist:  As America’s willingness and capability to act unilaterally declines, any U.S. president will find himself increasingly drawn to NATO as an even more vital tool for foreign and defense policy

Will the Egyptian Presidential Election be Free and Fair?

By Michele Dunne

Riding around Cairo, electoral posters are in view everywhere but not in superabundance.  From Freedom and Justice candidate Mohammed Morsy’s red posters pronouncing that “renaissance is the will of the people” (a rather clever attempt linking a 2011 revolutionary slogan to the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Renaissance Project”), to Amr Moussa’s “Egypt needs the work of every […]

Top News: SCAF to Issue New Constitutional Declaration

By Tarek Radwan

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is to issue a new constitutional declaration, or revive an amended version the 1971 constitution, specifying the new president’s powers, before polls open Wednesday, according to a military source. 

Egypt’s Constitution is Less Important than its Collective Consciousness: The Importance of Rule of Law

By Kristin Debs