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New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2009

Time to Lose War on Terror?

By James Joyner

In a Guardian op-ed and a speech in Mumbai, both today, British foreign secretary David Milibrand says that the “war on terror” was a bad idea.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2009

Israel Shells UN Headquarters in Gaza

By James Joyner

Breaking news from AP: Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel’s devastating offensive against the territory’s Hamas rulers.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2009

A Grand Opportunity for a Global President

By Shuja Nawaz

Charles Dickens called Washington a “city of magnificent intentions.” When Barack Obama takes over on January 20th as the 44th President of the United States, he will need to translate his own lofty ideas into realities. What makes the challenge bigger for him is that he may also be carrying another title: the first globally-elected […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 14, 2009

Stimulus Has its Limits (But We Don’t Know What They Are)

By James Joyner

Fed chair Ben Bernanke’s gave a speech yesterday at the London School of Economics which noted that, while “more capital injections and guarantees may become necessary to ensure stability and the normalization of credit markets,” other tools will need to be deployed.

New Atlanticist

Jan 14, 2009

Solving Europe’s Gas Problem

By Borut Grgic

It is hard to be amused by what now is an annual Ukraine-Russia gas dispute.  What surprises, is the continued lack of readiness in Europe to protect commerce and households from this problem.  The lack of viable alternatives is particularly evident in new Europe.

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Jan 14, 2009

What Obama Can Learn From Europe

By James Joyner

Atlantic Council president and CEO Fred Kempe was interviewed by EurActiv on the impending transition in the American presidency and, especially, the implications for U.S. – European relations.  Below are some excerpts.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 14, 2009

Priorities, Tactics, and Timing: The Stuff of Statecraft

By Robert Manning

In the torrent of foreign policy advice flowing to Barack Obama from underemployed think-tankers, job auditioners and academics, most is in the form of prescriptions: what to do on Iran, Russia, Darfur, or the Israeli-Palestine issue. But how and when an administration pursues a policy — and deciding what not to do — can be […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 13, 2009

U.S. Overtaking Italy as Top Wine Consumers

By James Joyner

The wine world is turning upside down, with upstarts drinking more wine than traditional powers France and Italy, Jenny Barchfield reports for AP. Global wine consumption, on the rise in past years, is forecast to continue to grow in the coming ones, with the United States overtaking Italy as the world’s biggest consumer by 2012, […]

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New Atlanticist

Jan 13, 2009

Freed Gitmo Inmates Return to Terrorism

By James Joyner

Whether by mischievous intent or happy coincidence, mere hours after Obama people announced that he would order the Guantanamo Bay detention facility closed, the Bush administration announced that 61 former detainees had returned to terrorism

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New Atlanticist

Jan 13, 2009

Bloggers Beware: The Carbon Footprint of a Google Search

By Peter Cassata

Curious about the environmental impact of the web?  New research by Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross found that a Google search generates around 7 grams of carbon dioxide, about half the energy required by a kettle to boil a cup of tea.  Google, however, begs to differ.

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