Category: Blogs

IMF Tackling Global Trade Imbalances

By Susan Schadler

Approaching a weekend of IMF spring meetings it is sensible to ask whether the agenda is right. The IMF will roll out a full agenda of initiatives to address global imbalances. These are important issues, but form a narrow agenda given current global vulnerabilities. In placing all its efforts in one objective, the IMF’s spring […]

Welcome to NATO Operation Protecting Disunity

By Julian Lindley-French

Don’t you just love NATO speak? Yesterday in Berlin NATO Foreign Ministers settled down to a working lunch to discuss ‘progress’ on Operation Unified Protector (OUP) in the skies over Libya. Personally, I have never been able to eat and think which could explain the ensuing Statement on Libya, which in its brevity and truth […]

NATO made the right call on helping Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Washington Post

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Washington Post:  [T]he international community and NATO had to act in Libya — and we did so quickly.

U.S. claims success in “most challenging” missile intercept test

By Reuters

From Reuters:  The U.S. military said it had successfully completed its "most challenging" missile intercept test yet, using Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co hardware to shoot down an intermediate-range ballistic target over the Pacific.

Is Libya the end of NATO?

By Steven Metz, the New Republic

From Steven Metz, the New Republic:  As new challenges arose around the world, NATO’s role and worth became increasingly unclear.

Atlantic Update 4/15/11

By Klee Aiken

President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron, and President Sarkozy appeal to the public in today’s New York Times, Le Figaro, and Times of London, while NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen writes in to The Washington Post, arguing that "NATO made the right call in Libya." The NATO theme continues throughout the papers as yesterday’s Foreign […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on April 14

By NATO

39 Senators warn Obama not to share missile defense control with Russia

By AFP

From AFP:  The 39 lawmakers, all Republican foes of the White House, said in a letter to [President Barack] Obama that they were "concerned" Russia would exploit his desire for bilateral cooperation on the issue

Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy commit to regime change in Libya

By Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the International Herald Tribune

From Barack Obama, David Cameron, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the International Herald Tribune:  Together with our NATO allies and coalition partners, the United States, France and Britain have been united

NATO attack on “pirate lair” frees 34 hostages

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  Earlier this month, NATO counter-piracy forces delivered a severe blow against armed pirates off the coast of Somalia by arresting 34 suspected pirates.