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Jan 20, 2010

France Likely to Sell Warship to Moscow

By the Washington Times

From the Washington Times: France is soon expected to become the first Western European NATO member to sell advanced military equipment to Russia, amid an aggressive search by Moscow for Western arms suppliers that has divided the country’s elite, diplomats and defense analysts say. The likely deal for at least one Mistral-class amphibious ship for […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2010

What to Do about Yemen?

By Don Snow

The revelations that the Ft. Hood massacre committed by US Army Major Nidal Malik Hassan and the Christmas underwear bombing attempt by Nigerian Umar Frouk Abdulmutallab may have been inspired by the rhetoric of an expatriate American living in Yemen (Anwar al-Maliki) placed that poor country on the southern end of the Arabian peninsula in […]

Yemen

New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2010

More Than “Hearts and Minds” Needed to Counter Terrorism

By Harlan Ullman

The phrase “winning hearts and minds” is a simplistic and dangerous cliche reflecting a certain naivete in American thinking that everyone yearns to be like us.

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2010

Ukraine Election: A Yushchenko Post-Mortem

By Adrian Karatnycky

Orange Revolution hero Viktor Yushchenko has been rejected decisively by Ukraine’s voters in the January 17th vote. However, this repudiation should not prevent us from seeing some his enduring successes, even as we acknowledge his failings.

Ukraine

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2010

SAC Flies its First Humanitarian Relief Flight to Haiti

By NATO

From NATO: The Multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) conducted a humanitarian relief mission to Haiti on 16 January 2010 delivering first-aid kits and supplies to help Haiti, whose capital Port-au-Prince has been devastated in a massive earthquake. This the first humanitarian assistance flight by SAC’s operational arm, the Heavy Airlift Wing based in Pápa Air […]

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2010

Transatlantic Homeland Security

By Global Europe

From Global Europe: If Europeans and Americans are to be safe at home, the United States need to boost its direct cooperation with EU institutions, and those institutions must take their new responsibilities seriously… Creating common standards in airline security or reaching a legal accord on data protection will be difficult, given our different legal […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jan 19, 2010

The Death of the West?

By the American Interest

From the American Interest: The biggest surprise, however, in the 2010s may be the breakup of the West. Just as the glue that once held the Third World is dissolving over time, the forces that once brought western Europe, the United States and Japan into a single economic and political bloc are gradually losing their […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2010

Giving Futurism a Bad Name

By Robert Manning

When a major publisher publishes a book by an author whose book jacket describes him as “a renowned expert in geopolitics and forecasting,” one might be expected to take it seriously.  Indeed, George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century was dutifully reviewed by mainstream reviewers as such when Doubleday released […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 19, 2010

Wall Street’s Lobbyists

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

In his classic "Bonfire of the Vanities," Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe were thinly disguised Wall Street megalomaniacs suffering from gluttonous edacity. Today, there is no longer any need for disguise.

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jan 18, 2010

Ukraine Presidential Results: Calling it Right

By Adrian Karatnycky

On January 15th, I offered my predictions for Ukraine’s January 17th presidential vote. All in all, they held up quite well. 

Ukraine
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