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New Atlanticist

Jun 8, 2009

European Parliament Moves Right

By James Joyner

The weekend’s European Parliament produced good news for the center-right parties, bad news for the center-left, and good news for radical parties of all stripes.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2009

Expand the West by Looking South

By Nikolas Gvosdev

For some reason, American strategic planners can only conceive of the “Atlantic community” along an east-west axis. Azerbaijan, lying on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, can aspire to membership in the Euro-Atlantic world; after all, it is part of the European Union’s “Eastern Partnership” initiative and aspires to eventual NATO membership. Yet inexplicably, […]

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2009

NATO image discussed at Istanbul conference

By Hurriyet

From Hurriyet: “But Solomon Passy, from Bulgaria, drew attention to NATO’s image. A member of parliament and a former foreign minister, Passy highlighted the need to improve the alliance’s image.‘NATO deserves a Nobel Prize for what it did in the last 60 years, but instead it has to defend itself in the press,’ Passy said. […]

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2009

European Security and Defence Forum Launched

By Chatham House

From Chatham House: “A new European Security and Defence Forum based at Chatham House, in partnership with Finmeccanica and with the support of the Italian Istituto Affari Internazionali, has been launched to analyze political and strategic developments in Europe.The Forum will examine what the implications might be for the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2009

Russian NATO envoy says Georgia continues militarization

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: “Georgia is continuing to militarize even though it clearly has not ruled out using force in regard to its former republics ofAbkhazia and South Ossetia, Russia’s NATO envoy said on Friday.‘We have all the necessary information, including classified, about those who continue to deliver weapons to Georgia and at what volumes,’ Dmitry […]

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2009

Moscow Struggling to Transform CSTO into a “Russian NATO”

By The Jamestown Foundation

From The Jamestown Foundation: “This week the CSTO defense ministers’ meeting in Moscow ended in failure – there was no agreement on the CORF. The CSTO Secretary-General Nikolai Bordyuzha told journalists that Armenia and Uzbekistan had blocked progress, ‘with Armenia demanding a more concrete date for when the CORF will become operational.'”

NATOSource

Jun 5, 2009

Azerbaijan: Baku Can Leapfrog over Ukraine, Georgia for NATO Membership

By eurasianet.org

From eurasianet.org: “A senior source within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Joint Force Command has told EurasiaNet that Azerbaijan stands a better chance of gaining NATO membership in the near future than either Georgia or Ukraine.‘Earlier, the perception in both Brussels [North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] headquarters] and Baku was that Georgia should integrate into […]

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NATOSource

Jun 5, 2009

In war-by-coalition, allies can be `first enemy’

By Associated Press

From Associated Press: “It’s a problem, Craddock said last month, that puts the entire NATO effort in Afghanistan in doubt. He said the individualrestrictions, known in NATO parlance as ‘caveats,’ seem reasonable at first. ‘Then, over time, those start to build on top of each other … and prettysoon what we’ve done is we’ve built […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2009

Britain’s Brown on Borrowed Time

By James Joyner

Despite an embarrassing drubbing of his Labour Party at the polls and the resignation of several key ministers, the UK’s Gordon Brown vows “I will not waver, I will not walk away, I will finish the work.”  Most observers, however, think he’s operating on borrowed time.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2009

Obama Can’t Smooth U.S.-Arab Divide with Talk

By Bernard Finel

President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech was designed to help improve our image in the Arab world. It won’t work. Ultimately, if we want to improve our relations with the Arab world, we would need to change the substance of American policy in the region. Rhetoric cannot overcome facts on the ground.

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