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Sep 15, 2010

Europe cools towards Obama: poll

By Luke Baker, Reuters

From Luke Baker, Reuters:  President Barack Obama‘s popularity remains high in Europe but has fallen in the past year as doubts emerge about some of his foreign policies, an opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.

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New Atlanticist

Sep 15, 2010

Today’s Realities Need New Responses

By Harlan Ullman

What an irony! Last week, the celebrations of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan; Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; and the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, attacks fell on consecutive days — an extraordinary proximate coincidence given how far apart Islam and Judeo-Christianity remain whether over threats to […]

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Sep 14, 2010

Flournoy previews U.S. priorities for NATO’s Lisbon Summit

By Jim Garamone, Armed Force Press Service

From Jim Garamone, Armed Force Press Service:  NATO’s roadmap for a new world and its mission in Afghanistan will be the main topics of discussion when the alliance’s leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, in November for their annual summit, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.

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Sep 14, 2010

Czech Foreign Minister informs Rasmussen about Kosovo pullout

By CTK

From CTK:  Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg Monday informed NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen of the planned Czech troops’ pullout from Kosovo and reinforcement of the contingent in Afghanistan. While Rasmussen welcomed the latter, he was not "very happy" over the withdrawal from Kosovo, Schwarzenberg said. Schwarzenberg did not specify how many more troops should […]

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Sep 14, 2010

Deputy SecDef briefs NATO on new cybersecurity strategy

By Jim Garamone, Armed Forces Press Service

From Jim Garamone, Armed Forces Press Service:  Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III stirred a lot of interest and questions on cybersecurity during a briefing to the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters here today.

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New Atlanticist

Sep 14, 2010

Roma Showdown Tests Limits of EU Power

By James Joyner

The EU is vowing to take action against France for its expulsion of hundreds of Roma, setting up a showdown that will test the sovereignty of one of Europe’s most powerful countries against the newly empowered European Commission. Last week, as Leo Cendrowicz reported for Time ("E.U. Tries to Stop France’s Crackdown on Gypsies"), Brussels […]

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Sep 14, 2010

Democracies of the World Unite

By Jeremy Kinsman, the International Herald Tribune

From Jeremy Kinsman, the International Herald Tribune:  At the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport recently, this global cause no longer seemed to impress a tough U.S. Homeland Security officer who challenged my explanation of what I was doing in the United States. “A ‘foreign democracy project’? Haven’t we stuck our noses enough in other peoples’ business and […]

United States and Canada

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Sep 14, 2010

Competition heating up for EU intelligence chief job

By Andrew Rettman, the EUobserver

From Andrew Rettman, the EUobserver:  Eight candidates have declared an interest in becoming the permanent head of the EU’s most sensitive security organ, the Joint Situation Centre (SitCen). French diplomat Patrice Bergamini, who was recently appointed as SitCen caretaker manager by EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton, is in a strong position to lobby for […]

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Sep 14, 2010

The South Caucasus: “an area of great Western strategic interest?”

By Thomas de Waal, Foreign Policy

From Thomas de Waal, Foreign Policy:  A third mirage is the perception of the South Caucasus as an area of great Western strategic interest — an approach, paradoxically, that actually does more harm than good. Two factors have led to the point of view that the South Caucasus is of such global import: first, the […]

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Sep 14, 2010

Eastern EU states battle for posts in new foreign service

By AFP

From AFP:  EU foreign policy supremo Catherine Ashton is gearing up to name her first appointees in the bloc’s new diplomatic corps, but East European states are grumbling big nations are cornering the top jobs. Though the carve-up of posts in the European External Action Service (EEAS) was not on the agenda of a two-day […]

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