Category: Blogs

Poland’s Solidarity

By Aleksandra Kulczuga, the Wall Street Journal

US and Poland: What Unites Us?

By Bart Szewczyk

 In preparation for President Obama’s upcoming trip to Warsaw, the US Embassy in Poland ran a contest asking Polish citizens, “What unites us”?  It is an equally fundamental issue for American citizens.  Indeed, the close partnership between the US and Poland over the past two decades—built on a historical bond between the two peoples forged […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 26

By NATO

Balkans 2011: A Road Not Travelled?

By Julian Lindley-French

“Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference”. So wrote American poet Robert Frost a century ago. He could have been speaking of my Balkan experience. Has a corner been turned? Ratko Mladic has been arrested. Or, […]

PR issues impact Obama’s visit to Poland

By the AP

From the AP:  President Barack Obama’s last stop on his European tour brings him to Poland for the first time, giving him the chance to inject new vigor in a relationship with an ally that has sometimes felt slighted by Washington.

Baltic states urge NATO to bolster cyber-defense

By AFP

From AFP:  NATO members must bolster their ability to fend off Internet-based attacks, Estonian Defence Minister Mart Laar, whose country fell victim to a "cyber-war" in 2007, said Thursday.

Arab Spring’s Somber Warning

By Harlan Ullman

This column has forecast how the Arab Spring could too easily metastasize when or if the powerful causal forces of great public discontent aren’t dispersed or reliever.  What is interesting is to speculate whether the power of discontent could spread and not merely within the region. What is happening in Europe and in the United […]

Obama’s opportunity to promote “a Europe whole, free, and at peace”

By Kurt Volker, Ivan Vejvoda, and Damon Wilson, the New Atlanticist

From Kurt Volker, Ivan Vejvoda, and Damon Wilson, the New Atlanticist:  [Barack Obama’s presidency] will be the first administration since President Clinton’s first term that has not seen NATO invite new members to join the Alliance. And it will take the EU at least five years to bring in new members following Croatia’s likely accession […]

Obama’s Crucial Moment in Poland

By Kurt Volker Vejvoda Damon Wilson

President Obama’s visit to Europe this week is giving him the opportunity to bury once and for all perceptions that have dogged his administration from the outset: that the US has lost interest in Europe, and has put a higher priority on resetting relations with an authoritarian Russia than it has on the completion of […]