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Unemployed FDR Memorial

New Atlanticist

Mar 21, 2009

Countries with Best Unemployment Benefits

By James Joyner

FP’s Annie Lowrey notes that, “As many as 50 million people could be out of work by the end of 2009. But the unemployed in some countries definitely have it better than others.”

Economy & Business
European Union

New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2009

EU Hands Chad Mission to UN

By James Joyner

The European Union has handed over command of the peacekeeping mission in Chad to the United Nations. 

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 12, 2009

America Could Learn From Europe on Appointment Process

By James Joyner

H. Rodgin Cohen, “the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanoupoulous reports.  He adds, “Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette Nazareth.”

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 11, 2009

Should Obama Abandon NATO for the EU?

By James Joyner

Paul Hockenos, editor of Internationale Politik-Global Edition, asks “Is the EU Better for Obama than NATO?” His answer, not surprisingly, is Yes.

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 10, 2009

Resetting What? Hillary Clinton’s Talks with NATO, EU, Russia

By David Smith

If good feelings were the measure of effective diplomacy, then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s foray into Europe last week earned top marks.

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 4, 2009

Poll: Russia Reset and EU Future

By James Joyner

Our most recent poll on efforts to “push the reset button” on relations with Russia shows substantially more optimism among Europeans than Americans. 

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 3, 2009

European Court Fines Turkey

By James Joyner

Turkey has once again been rebuffed by Europe: The European Court of Human Rights Tuesday ruled Turkey had violated the property rights of a Greek Orthodox foundation by seizing its land and ordered the government to pay damages.

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 2, 2009

Economic ‘Iron Curtain’ Dividing Europe?

By James Joyner

The European Union yesterday rejected calls from Hungary for a massive bailout plan for struggling economies in Eastern Europe, despite dire warnings of a new “iron curtain” dividing the Continent.

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Mar 1, 2009

Obama Has Not Yet Fixed US-Europe Relations

By James Joyner

A series of discordant columns over the weekend makes it clear that a new American president has not been a magic fix for the transatlantic relationship.  Indeed, the global financial crisis has exacerbated differences, not just between America and Europe but within Europe as well.

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 26, 2009

Former Serb President Cleared of Kosovo Crimes

By James Joyner

The international community has once again struck out in its attempts to find a senior Serbian leader criminally liable for attrocities in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

International Organizations
Politics & Diplomacy
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James Mazzarella

Senior Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Corruption Economy & Business

Executive Leadership Intensive participant

Kristina Kempkey

Former Senior Advisor, USAID

Millennium Leadership Program

International Organizations National Security

Fellow

Paul Klimos

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Freedom and Prosperity Center

Entrepreneurship G20

Fellow

Dana L. Banks

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Africa Center

Africa Economy & Business

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Rebecca Katz

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Africa Center

Africa Coronavirus

Staff

Ryan Pan

Project Assistant

GeoTech Center

Artificial Intelligence Chinese
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