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Nov 13, 2008

Every Major Terrorist Threat Has Ties to Pakistan

By James Joyner

CIA Director Michael Hayden told the Atlantic Council this afternoon that al Qaeda’s safe haven in Pakistan’s ungoverned tribal areas have provided a “sanctuary” that has “allowed it to recover some capacity lost when expelled from Afghanistan” nearly seven years ago.

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Nov 13, 2008

The Future of NATO-EU Relations

By Julian Lindley-French

These remarks were delivered recently at the Atlantic Council’s conference on Reforming NATO for the 21st Century. Excellencies, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.  Let me immediately address the question that General Scowcroft posed last night – what is NATO for?  Well, in the security domain it is the same as the EU.  To […]

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Nov 13, 2008

The Kaliningrad Missile Crisis

By Neil Leslie

The Kremlin’s latest move to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad is the first time since the Cold War that Russia has “declared its intention to create a military threat to the West.” Yet the nature of the threat does not represent a fundamental challenge to U.S. or European security and has been largely overblown on both […]

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Nov 12, 2008

The Absence of Europe: Implications for International Security?

By Steven Kramer

Facing a worsening economic situation and a war in Iraq that will be difficult to end—in short, grave overstretch—the next U.S. administration will seek to return to a more multilateral foreign policy and attempt to work closely with Europe. But Europe may not be willing or able to meet American expectations to play a larger […]

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Nov 12, 2008

Russia and $50 Oil

By James Joyner

Oil prices have plummeted in recent weeks, hitting a 20-month low of $59 per barrel, a 60 percent drop-off from its summer high of $147.  One might reasonably think that this would be crippling to a country like Russia, which relies so heavily on energy exports to stake its claim to major power status.  The […]

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Nov 11, 2008

Obama’s Afghanistan Plan

By James Joyner

During the campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Afghanistan.  Most notably, he argued that we had been distracted by the war in Iraq and had diverted resources to that conflict, which he opposed, that could better have been devoted to fighting al Qaeda and finding Osama bin Laden.  […]

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Nov 10, 2008

Indignation or Ignominy

By David Smith

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour.  You chose dishonour and you will have war.”  (Winston Churchill to Neville Chamberlain on the occasion of the Munich Agreement, 1938) The European Union stepped closer last week to resuming the partnership talks with Moscow that it suspended in the wake of Russia’s August invasion of […]

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New Atlanticist

Nov 7, 2008

Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President (Joyner)

By James Joyner

All week, we’ve been featuring thoughts from expert commentors on what they believe should be the Foreign Policy Priorities for the Next President. 

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Nov 7, 2008

Obama’s Election: The View from Europe

By Peter Cassata

The European public and its leaders have embraced Barack Obama’s victory while, in most cases, expressing some reservations.

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Nov 7, 2008

While We Weren’t Looking…

By Lynn Roche

The Atlantic Council’s Robert Manning recently focused our attention on the October Asia-Europe Summit in Beijing.  We Americans might have missed the significance of the emerging multipolarity and shifts in global power while up to our elbows in election politics and financial woes.

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