International Organizations

Britain blocks permanent EU military headquarters

By David Brunnstrom and Christopher Le Coq, Reuters

From David Brunnstrom and Christopher Le Coq, Reuters:  Britain blocked a proposal to establish a permanent headquarters for EU defence and security operations, saying it would duplicate NATO structures and be an unnecessary expense. The proposal for a permanent Operations Headquarters (OHQ), put forward by Catherine Ashton, the British EU high representative for foreign affairs […]

Why the EU should patrol Libya

By John Herbst and Leo Michel, European Voice

From John Herbst and Leo Michel, European Voice:  The international community should therefore be preparing itself to help maintain basic security in a post-Qaddafi era. But who, precisely, would lead the international community?

Was EUFOR Libya an April fool’s joke?

By Ana Gomes, EUobserver

64% of Israelis would support NATO deployment to the West Bank and Gaza

By Ben Hartman, the Jerusalem Post

Post-Gaddafi Libya: The Kosovo Contingency

By Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

From Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy:  [B]ack when NATO first got involved, a number of people made the obvious comparison to the 1999 war in Kosovo.

EU defence ambitions stuck in no-man’s land

By AFP

Europe’s last dictator

By David J. Kramer and A. Wess Mitchell, the Washington Post

From David J. Kramer and A. Wess Mitchell, the Washington Post:  Dubbed the last dictator in Europe, Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko is under growing domestic and international pressure because of his gross human rights abuses and responsibility for his country’s worst economic crisis since gaining independence 20 years ago.