Category: Blogs

Mistral talks stumble over sensitive technology

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Talks between Russia and France on the purchase of Mistral class helicopter carriers have come to a dead end over Russia’s demands on the transfer and licensed production of sensitive electronics

France expels 14 Libyan diplomats

By Nick Vinocur, Reuters

Best Front Page Ever

By James Joyner

The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs the above the Greatest Front Page Ever.

Atlantic Update 5/6/11

By Klee Aiken

Rough seas ahead for Russia’s attempts to procure Mistral class warships from France, as further disagreement over licensing and sensitive technology stall progress. Poland looks to emphasize European Union expansion in its upcoming stint as EU President, but with Icesave victims Great Britain and the Netherlands in the mix, including Iceland in its plans could […]

German media criticizes Obama and US for death of Osama bin Laden

By Charles Lane, the Washington Post

From Charles Lane, the Washington Post: [M]any of Obama’s erstwhile Euro-fans are feeling a twinge of buyer’s remorse.

2011 Awards Dinner: You Had to Be There

By James Joyner

Atlantic Council awards dinners are filled with speeches from world leaders about weighty topics of global import. But what makes them so special is the personal interactions and the lighter moments, touching stories, and shared connections.

History Matters in War and Politics

By Harlan Ullman

This column was almost pre-empted by news of the daring “kill or capture” raid by U.S. Navy SEALs against Osama bin Laden. But, as the Raymond Davis case took time to resolve, the tough and obvious political and strategic answers to what Pakistan knew or did not know about the now deceased al-Qaida leader’s whereabouts […]

EU battlegroups wait for Libya operation “unlikely ever to be launched”

By Toby Vogel, the European Voice

Atlantic Update 5/5/11

By Klee Aiken

Europe and the United States set their sights spacewards, although if EU President Herman van Rompuy is right the EU might be "too depressed" to muster the innovation for such a task. Russia further clarifies what it hopes to get from NATO-Russian cooperation and Europe looks to ensure its influence in Africa as Chinese presence […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 4

By NATO