Category: Blogs

Russian Ambassador: We Want to Be Partners But Need Guarantees

By Sarwar Kashmeri

In the latest installment of the New Atlanticist Podcast Series Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri interviews Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s Ambassador to NATO.

Diplomatic Cables Reveal US Doubts about Turkey’s Government

By Spiegel

The Wikileaks Cables and Transatlantic Relations

By Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren, the New York Times

From Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren, the New York Times:  A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

Stuxnet: Signs Could Point to Russia

By Chris Demchak

No smoking gun cleanly identifies the author of Stuxnet but three broad streams of evidence point away from the usual suspects of Israel, the US, or China.

Turkey: What NATO means for us

NATO has released new videos on YouTube providing national perspectives on the Alliance.

For NATO alliance, progress in Lisbon

By the Editors of the Washington Post

From the Editors of the Washington Post:  The war in Afghanistan has threatened to break the NATO alliance – regardless of the outcome of the war itself.

NATO Rejects Russian Missile Defense Offer

By Stephen Fidler and Gregory L. White, the Wall Street Journal

From Stephen Fidler and Gregory L. White, the Wall Street Journal:  Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have rebuffed a proposal from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to unite Russia’s missile defenses with those of the West, said diplomats and NATO officials.

The United States of America: What NATO means for us

NATO has released new videos on YouTube providing national perspectives on the Alliance.

U.S.-Russia: A side meeting, and then a breakthrough

By Christi Parsons, the Los Angeles Times

From Christi Parsons, the Los Angeles Times:  "It’s interesting," deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes said in retrospect, "how a bilateral meeting at one summit is necessary to yield results at another.

What has changed in NATO-Russia relations?

By Simon Shuster, Time

From Simon Shuster, Time:  The Russian ambassador to NATO, Dmitri Rogozin, told TIME on Tuesday night that the divisions of the past two years, when official ties with NATO have been frozen, helped uncover the "red line" that the alliance is unwilling to cross.