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New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2009

Obama Foreign Policy Report Card

By James Joyner

The editors at Foreign Policy magazine used the occasion of the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s election as president to ask a “a group of experts” to grade President Obama’s foreign policy performance.   I was honored to be among the graders.

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Nov 2, 2009

Mixed Signals From West About Trusting Russia

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Adm. Igor Burtsev of the Russian Navy indicated to Russian media over the weekend that France was now ready to sell it a helicopter-carrying assault ship and a license to produce four similar advanced vessels. They are the warships that the Russian Navy’s commander in chief, Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, said, […]

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Nov 2, 2009

Europe Still Likes Obama, but Doubts Creep In

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: [N]ine months into Mr. Obama’s presidency, trans-Atlantic relations are again clouded by doubts. Europe and the United States remain at least partly out of sync on Afghanistan, the Middle East, Iran and climate change. Many Europeans argue that Mr. Obama has not broken clearly enough with Bush administration policies that […]

European Union International Organizations

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Nov 2, 2009

Latvia to stage ‘retaliatory’ military exercises in summer

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Latvia is to hold large-scale military exercises next summer, in response to the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises, held in September, the Latvian TV3 channel reported. The TV channel quoted Latvian Defense Minister Imants Liegis as saying the decision to hold the drill was already taken, although it had not been yet set what […]

Brent Scowcroft on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2009

Brent Scowcroft on the fall of the Berlin Wall

By Frederick Kempe

Frederick Kempe interviewed Brent Scowcroft on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2009

Freedom’s Challenge Editor’s Introduction

By Frederick Kempe

A special abridged edition of Freedom’s Challenge is being released in conjunction with an important new initiative, the Atlantic Council Freedom Awards, which salute, acknowledge and honor women, men, organizations and peoples who nurture, defend and advance the cause of freedom around the globe.

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2009

NATO-Russia Reset Needed

By Donald Bandler and Jakub Kulhanek

In March of 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for pushing a “reset” button in US-Russian relations, and since then officials from both countries have been making tentative inroads in that direction. Yet, the thaw in US-Russian relations should not obscure the need for improvement of the overall state of relations between Russia […]

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Oct 30, 2009

Is Turkey Leaving the West?

By Foreign Affairs

From Foreign Affairs: A mountain is moving in Turkish foreign policy, and the foundation of Turkey’s 60-year-old military and political cooperation with the West may be eroding… But the AKP’s foreign policy has not promoted sympathy toward all Muslim states. Rather, the party has promoted solidarity with Islamist, anti-Western regimes (Qatar and Sudan, for example) […]

European Union International Organizations

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Oct 30, 2009

South Korea to send troops, engineers to Afghanistan

By Reuters

From Reuters: South Korea will send a security contingent of police and troops to Afghanistan to guard the work of a new and larger team of civilian engineers, its Foreign Ministry said on Friday. South Korea will not allow the troops to engage in combat operations, a ministry spokesman said. Seoul has been under pressure […]

United States and Canada

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Oct 30, 2009

War Games

By the Economist

From the Economist: Jitters in eastern Europe over Russia’s military manoeuvres… Big military exercises in western Russia and Belarus, which finished earlier this month, were based on the following improbable scenario: ethnic Poles in western Belarus rise up and “terrorists” from Lithuania attack the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. More than 10,000 troops from Russia and […]

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