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Nov 9, 2011

NATO Secretary General discusses Smart Defense and Syria after White House visit

By NPR

 From NPR:  Robert Siegel interviews NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Nov 9, 2011

NATO ambassadors visit Georgia and discuss alliance membership

By NATO

From NATO:  The NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC) at Ambassadorial level met in Tbilisi today with the participation of the Georgian Prime Minister.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 9, 2011

Iran Nuclear Watchdog Details Pre-2003 Weapons Research

By Barbara Slavin

A new report on Iran’s nuclear programme provides substantial evidence that Iran carried out extensive research into how to make a nuclear weapon prior to 2003 but is shaky about how much work has continued. Citing “a wide variety of independent sources”, including material from 10 member states and from a foreign scientist who worked […]

Nuclear Nonproliferation Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Nov 9, 2011

More than Liberia’s Fragile Democracy at Risk

By Peter Pham

No country in Africa is linked as closely to the United States as Liberia, a state that traces its origins to a philanthropic enterprise initiated by a group of prominent Americans authorized by a Congressional charter to establish a “land of liberty” for manumitted African American slaves as well as victims of the banned transatlantic […]

NATOSource

Nov 9, 2011

“A crucial summit at a crucial time:” Obama and Rasmussen discuss agenda for upcoming NATO summit

By NATO

From NATO:  The NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited Washington on 7 November to meet President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and members of the Senate to review NATO-led operations and prepare for the Chicago summit next May.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2011

Iran Nuclear Threat: What’s Next?

By Barbara Slavin

A new report released Tuesday by the International Atomic Energy Agency makes clear that Tehran has carried out extensive research into making a nuclear weapon. But it does not explain what the United States and the rest of the world should do.  The Iranian government, according to U.S. intelligence officials, has not yet decided to […]

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2011

Israeli Strike on Iran’s Nukes a Real Danger

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Iran’s nuclear ambitions predate the clerical dictatorship that overthrew the monarchy in 1979. The late last monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, reached the same conclusion when Britain, in 1968, suddenly relinquished all of its geopolitical responsibilities east of Suez — from Singapore to the Suez Canal, including the Persian Gulf and the oil that then […]

Iran Israel

New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2011

A New Paradigm

By Shahid Javed Burki

The decision on November 2 by the Pakistani cabinet to grant the ‘Most Favoured Nation’ (MFN) status to India in matters pertaining to trade is a tectonic shift in the country’s relations with its large neighbour. India awarded the MFN status to Pakistan in 1996 soon after joining the World Trade Organisation. Pakistan was also […]

Economy & Business India

NATOSource

Nov 8, 2011

R2P, R.I.P.

By David Rieff, the International Herald Tribune

From David Rieff, the International Herald Tribune:  Those skeptics like myself who are wary of this interventionist paradigm must acknowledge that rejecting it might allow dictators like Qaddafi to stay in power.

NATOSource

Nov 8, 2011

Arming Syria’s rebels

By Idean Salehyan, Duck of Minerva

United States and Canada
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