Category: Blogs

Stopping the Trans-Atlantic Drift

By Constanze Stelzenmüller and Tomas Valasek, the International Herald Tribune

NATO SEcGen welcomes Russian ratification of START

By NATO

From NATO:  Statement by the Secretary General on the Russian ratification of the new START Treaty I warmly welcome the ratification by the Russian Parliament of the new START Treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation. Following earlier ratification by the US Senate the entry into force of this important Treaty is good […]

NATO SecGen explains meeting with President of Uzbekistan

By NATO

From NATO:  Excerpts from press conference by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Reform of NATO agencies to be presented in March, changes in military command structure chosen by June

By NATO

Obama highlights Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, START and NATO in State of Union Address

By the White House

From the White House:  Look to Iraq, where nearly 100,000 of our brave men and women have left with their heads held high.

Why I’m At Davos

By Frederick Kempe

Dateline Davos — The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting is as good a place as any to restart blogging, which I had abandoned four years ago when I left the Wall Street Journal  and my "Thinking Global" column to become president and  CEO of the Atlantic Council. Davos tries to capture the Zeitgeist each year […]

Enduring Geopolitics: Russia’s 2008 Attack in Historical Perspective

By David Smith

 Ninety-one years ago this week, the British cabinet rejected a comprehensive plan to rally an anti-Bolshevik coalition, support White Russian forces, control the Baku-Batumi corridor and the Caspian Sea and, from that position of strength, negotiate with the nascent Soviet government.  The geopolitical effect of this decision was cession of the Eurasian heartland to the […]

Atlantic Update 1/25/11

By James Joyner

Each weekday, Atlantic Update will highlight top news stories and columns vital to understanding the transatlantic space.

Moscow airport bomb: Medvedev calls for security shake-up

By the Telegraph

From the Telegraph:  Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has threatened sackings over security lapses he said had aided a deadly bombing at the country’s busiest airport.

Albanian prime minister warns of more violence

By Nick Squires, the Telegraph

From Nick Squires, the Telegraph:  Albania’s prime minister has thanked the army for heading off what he called an attempted coup last week, but warned that more violence is likely in the next few days. Three people were killed and more than 150 injured in the capital, Tirana, last Friday during violent clashes between tens […]