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New Atlanticist

Dec 16, 2009

Turkey’s Role in Resolving Nagorno-Karabakh

By Alexandros Petersen

Alexandros Petersen, nonresident senior fellow at the Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center, was interviewed by Leyla Tagiyeva of Azerbaijan’s News.Az on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

NATOSource

Dec 15, 2009

Colin Powell Looks Back — and Ahead

By the Atlantic Council

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NATOSource

Dec 15, 2009

Czech Republic to join AWACS system

By Xinhua

From Xinhua: Czech airspace will be guarded by radar planes of NATO forces starting next January, as the government on Monday approved the country’s accession to NATO’s E-3A AWACS system of airborne warning and control, according to a cabinet press release. The Ministry of Defense will pay 290,000 euros a year to join the program […]

New Atlanticist

Dec 15, 2009

Europe’s Long Banana Nightmare Ending

By James Joyner

After an epic 16-year battle, the EU has agreed to stop fighting to keep banana prices for its citizens artificially high. 

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New Atlanticist

Dec 15, 2009

Obstacles to a European Foreign Policy

By James Joyner

The Economist‘s EU columnist argues that three factor will make Catherine Ashton’s job as the EU’s new foreign policy chief “pretty complicated.” Let’s take each of them in turn.

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New Atlanticist

Dec 15, 2009

Lord Robertson on the Transformation of NATO

By Simon Michell

George Robertson tells Simon Michell how the fall of the Berlin Wall brought in a period of confusion that saw a transformation in the role and mission of NATO.

New Atlanticist

Dec 14, 2009

Petraeus the Next Eisenhower?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

U.S. President Barack Obama has scaled back the scope of the Afghan war, now about to enter its ninth year, to a limited military objective: deny al-Qaida a safe haven. And since we are now told there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan — the rest are in Pakistan’s tribal areas — a […]

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NATOSource

Dec 14, 2009

Obama Gives Britain the Cold Shoulder

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal: Britain is the only European country President Barack Obama can really count on to respond positively to his plea for NATO to provide extra forces for Afghanistan. So why is it, then, that the Obama administration can barely conceal its disdain for a nation that, by its deeds, time and […]

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NATOSource

Dec 14, 2009

Europe and Afghanistan

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Afghanistan is not and should not be just the United States’ fight. Al Qaeda has used its sanctuaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan to plot and launch attacks on European cities. We welcome the news that some of America’s 42 military partners in Afghanistan plan to send more troops… Still, NATO’s […]

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New Atlanticist

Dec 14, 2009

Tempering Afghan Optimism

By Don Snow

The recent announcements and statements of support for President Obama’s “surge” in Afghanistan have left me a bit confused, and I wonder if readers can help me out here. Something just does not compute.

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