International Organizations

The Franglosphere – No, Not Bad BBC Science Fiction

By Julian Lindley-French

I was in London this week and two things happened that suggest l’albion perfide might be about to do the dirty on both America and France. First, in high-level meetings in the Ministry of Defence British officials confirmed that the disastrous 2010 Strategic Security and Defence Review (Strategic Pretence and Impecunity Review) had been the […]

Libya: Mission creak

By the Editors of the Guardian

From the Editors of the Guardian:  The 20 British and French military advisers being sent to help the rebels in Benghazi do not constitute an occupation force.

Libya crisis reveals divisions on EU defense policy

By Judy Dempsey, the International Herald Tribune

“Adenauer and de Gaulle must be turning in their graves”

By Roger Cohen, the New York Times

From Roger Cohen, the New York Times:  Only in recent weeks has the distance traveled come into focus: France, reintegrated in 2009 into the command structure of NATO

NATO and Georgia reaffirm each other

By NATO

Welcome to NATO Operation Protecting Disunity

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist: The statement is a masterpiece of NATO speak and thus needs interpreting into plain English. This is something that has not been seen at NATO Headquarters since the Scottish occupied it back in the early naughties – it was plain but incomprehensible. … The “valuable” contribution made by OUP members […]

NATO made the right call on helping Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Washington Post

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Washington Post:  [T]he international community and NATO had to act in Libya — and we did so quickly.

UN rebuffs EU proposal for humanitarian mission to Libya

By DPA

From DPA:  The United Nations has rebuffed a European Union offer to deploy a military mission to assist humanitarian aid efforts in Libya, European officials in Luxembourg said Tuesday.

Sweden blocks planning for EU mission in Libya

By Valentina Pop, EUobserver

From Valentina Pop, EUobserver:  Foreign ministers have sketched out the basic outlines of an EU ‘military-humanitarian’ mission to Libya, amid concern about putting ground soldiers into a volatile situation. The meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday (12 March) saw ministers discuss the so-called concept of operations (Conops) for the Eufor Libya mission, the first step in […]

Deutschland, unter alles…

By David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy

From David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy:  I will be happy to tell you how a host of the world’s current problems will work out if you answer one question for me: How far will Germany go to solve other countries’ problems?