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New Atlanticist

Mar 30, 2012

Bradford: The Coming Crisis of European Democracy

By Julian Lindley-French

A political earthquake took place last night in the city of Bradford, in my home county of Yorkshire, that is relevant not only to Britain but could well signal a coming crisis of European democracy – the revolt of the people against the professional political caste. The defeat of the long-incumbent Labour Party by George […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2012

Norway establishes ‘Arctic Battalion’

By Trude Peterson, the Barents Observer

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2012

The 21st Century Force Multiplier: Public—Private Collaboration

By James Stavridis and Evelyn N. Farkas, the Washington Quarterly

From James Stavridis and Evelyn N. Farkas, the Washington Quarterly:  The government and private sector collaborate on a voluntary basis in many small and medium-sized ways to respond to natural and man-made disasters, prevent cyber or terrorist attacks, or to exchange information about the political—business environment in countries of interest.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Mar 29, 2012

The F-35’s Cyber Death Spiral?

By Jason Healey

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may have a far worse problem than overpromises, cost overruns, and technology overreach: we may be spending hundreds of billions of dollars on an aircraft for which our adversaries have apparently stolen the plans.

MENASource

Mar 29, 2012

Top News: Reports of Brotherhood-SCAF Deal on New Cabinet

By Mara Revkin

Brotherhood sources reported that the SCAF has offered to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to form a new cabinet if the group refrains from nominating a presidential candidate.

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2012

Ousting Syria’s Assad through a ‘soft landing’

By David Ignatius, the Washington Post

From David Ignatius, the Washington Post:  Maybe it’s time for Syrian revolutionaries to take “yes” for an answer from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and back a U.N.-sponsored “managed transition” of power there, rather than rolling on toward a civil war

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2012

The Never-Ending Cold War

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Two decades after the end of the cold war, Mitt Romney still considers Russia to be America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2012

EU rights group blasts NATO over migrant deaths

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  An EU rights group has blasted NATO and Western coast guards for failing to aid a boatload of migrants, dozens of whom died while adrift in the Mediterranean Sea during last year’s military campaign against Libya. A report by a Council of Europe committee said that only nine of 72 […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 29, 2012

US Foreign Policy: Desperate But Not Serious?

By Harlan Ullman

George Bernard Shaw quipped that the United States and England were two nations divided by a common language. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that precipitated the global wars against terror and in Afghanistan and Iraq, Shaw’s observation has considerably broadened. Are differences between both sides of the Atlantic on threats and dangers so great […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 29, 2012

How the French Might Split their Vote

By Nicholas Dungan

The French people go to the polls to choose their next president in a first-round election on April 22, with a second round between the two top contenders on May 6.

Elections France
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