Category: Blogs

Finish the Job

By James M. Dubik, the New York Times

From James M. Dubik, the New York Times:  In war, leadership is not exercised from the rear by those who seek to risk as little as possible.

Atlantic Update 4/26/11

By Klee Aiken

Today marks 25 years since the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl – an event brought closer to home by the current crisis in Fukushima. Italy steps up to bat in Libya, while in Rome Prime Minister Berlusconi is set to meet with French President Sarkozy to resolve the ongoing migration dispute. Poland continues to squabble with […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 25

By NATO

Humanitarian Intervention: The Views of President Obama, Candidate Obama, and Secretary Clinton

By the White House

From the White House:  Excerpt from President Barack Obama’s Address to the Nation on Libya, March 28, 2011.

Italian jets joining NATO air strikes in Libya

By the BBC

From the BBC:  Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has approved the use of his country’s air force in Nato’s Libya mission.

Turkey’s relationship with Iran influenced NATO agreement

By Tehran Times

Ukraine: Bread Basket of China?

By Mary Micevych

As Ukraine seeks to double its global grain export, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov used his visit this week to a trade summit in China as a platform to showcase his country’s agricultural investment and trade potential. Although the EU remains Ukraine’s largest trading partner, Azarov used the summit to set the sights further abroad, pursuing […]

NATO’s Last Chance

By Andrew A. Michta, the American Interests

From Andrew A. Michta, the American Interests:  As spring 2011 bursts into bloom, the NATO alliance finds itself withering on the vine.

U.S. ‘Kleptocracy’ Initiative Key to Mideast Future

By Mark Brzezinski

Outrage at corruption is the common denominator of the upheaval sweeping the Middle East. It was corruption at the fruit market, where a fruit vendor set himself ablaze after being exploited by arrogant police, which sparked the revolution that ousted Tunisia’s leader. In Egypt, university graduates who couldn’t get a job without some connection to […]

Westerwelle’s Woes

By Ralf Neukirch, Spiegel

From Ralf Neukirch, Spiegel:  By contrast, the professor [Christian Hacke of the University of Bonn] contends that [German Foreign Minister Guido] Westerwelle — who was a protege of former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher — has embraced a "neo-German Wilhelminism,"