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Bob Zoellick Atlantic Council

New Atlanticist

Dec 11, 2009

Different Economic Tones in Europe and Asia

By James Joyner

World Bank president Robert Zoellick notes he was “struck by the very different tones” in recent financial summits in West and Asia, seeing a timidity in the former and an aggressive “growth agenda” in the latter.

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Dec 11, 2009

Limits of Force: The U.S. in the 21st Century

By Chuck Hagel

We are only now coming to terms with what it will take to lead in the world that has evolved in the 20 years since the Berlin Wall’s fall, instructed by the hard lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan.

NATOSource

Dec 10, 2009

Vaclac Havel on the Role of Russia in Central Europe

By Foreign Policy

From Foreign Policy: I think that America has not forgotten us, but it should still take into account that the terrain here in Central Europe is somewhat more explosive than other areas of conflict elsewhere in the world. World wars start here, not in Iran or Korea or anywhere else. But I have not yet […]

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Dec 10, 2009

Transatlantic Trade More Important than You Think

By James Joyner

Despite perceptions here and in Europe that a G2 is emerging in which the United States and China will be international Goliaths largely oblivious to the world’s Davids, the fact of the matter is that “the United States and the EU together comprise 54 percent of global GDP.”

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

NATOSource

Dec 10, 2009

SecGen: We Must Now Demonstrate that Multilateralism Delivers Concrete Results

By the Atlantic Review

From the Atlantic Review: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is promising that there will be 7,000 additional troops from 25 countries to support Obama’s extended surge. Interestingly, one of the reasons he gave was the multilateralism of the US: If we are to make Afghanistan more stable, and ourselves more secure, we must all […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Dec 10, 2009

Poland Shifting Troops from UN to NATO Missions

By thenews.pl

From thenews.pl: After 17 years, Poland ends its participation in the UN mission in Lebanon, with the last troops leaving the country in mid-December. Deputy Defense Stanislaw Komorowski, currently in the Middle East says the basis for the decision to terminate their presence was the government’s strategy of granting priority to NATO and the EU […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 10, 2009

Obama ‘Snubs’ Norwegians en Route to Nobel Prize

By James Joyner

It seems that Barack Obama’s bid to repair relations with Europe continues to suffer setbacks caused by a combination of his own lapses and overweening sensitivities on the other side of the Atlantic. The latest issue, ironically enough, comes with today’s trip to Oslo to receive a Nobel peace prize.

NATOSource

Dec 10, 2009

Barack Obama: Last Transatlantic President?

By the Washington Note

From the Washington Note: On Afghanistan too, Europe has been reluctant, at best prepared to await the announcement of a new American strategy, at worst appearing to bandwagon on the back of American power when the perception in the US is that Europe’s security interests are at least as threatened by the situation in Afghanistan […]

Energy & Environment European Union

New Atlanticist

Dec 10, 2009

Azerbaijan Key Energy Player with Limited Options

By Alexandros Petersen

Azerbaijan’s ongoing dispute with Turkey about transit terms and revenues for natural gas heading to Europe across Anatolia, as well as uncertainties about the Nabucco pipeline project, have compelled highest-level officials at Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) to publicly consider the option of exporting hydrocarbons eastward, potentially to China and other East Asian markets.

NATOSource

Dec 9, 2009

Merkel on the Defensive in Afghanistan

By Spiegel

From Spiegel: US President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and NATO has pledged an additional 7,000. But in Germany, demands for more soldiers will put Chancellor Merkel in a political bind and could result in a new trans-Atlantic tiff… Last Tuesday’s conversation between the US president and the German chancellor lasted […]

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