From Peshawar to Batumi: Time to Realize the East-West Corridor

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After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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David Daoud

Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.

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From Peshawar to Batumi: Time to Realize the East-West Corridor

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Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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Adam Kozloski

To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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From Peshawar to Batumi: Time to Realize the East-West Corridor

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Aug 21, 2024

Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Peter Dickinson

Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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Dec 30, 2008

From Peshawar to Batumi: Time to Realize the East-West Corridor

By David Smith

Hakimullah Mehsud makes an eloquent practical argument for development of the East-West Corridor that runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian, across Georgia and Azerbaijan.  His Taliban guerillas are attacking NATO supply convoys traveling from Pakistan to Afghanistan and they recently struck a major logistics depot in the Pakistani town of Peshawar. 

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New Atlanticist

Dec 26, 2008

Bypassing NATO?: Ukraine and Georgia Seek to Strengthen Ties with U.S.

By Peter Cassata

Will the U.S. extend security guarantees to Georgia and Ukraine on a bilateral basis?  With NATO MAPs not on the table for the foreseeable future, pacts with the U.S. are emerging in both countries.  However, Ukraine’s is nonbinding, and as my colleague James Joyner points out, Georgia’s seems largely symbolic.  RFE/RL ran two articles about […]

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 22, 2008

Rethinking NATO’s Strategic Concept

By David Capezza

When members of a strained Alliance convene in Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany for the 60th Anniversary of NATO it will have been a decade since they last agreed upon a strategic vision for the alliance. 

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 20, 2008

NATO – Russia Diplomatic Relations Resume

By James Joyner

NATO and Russia are talking again for the first time since the August invasion of Georgia, AP reports. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Dmitry Rogozin, Moscow’s ambassador to the alliance, met over lunch Friday in the first high-level meeting after a four-month hiatus caused by the war.

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Russia

New Atlanticist

Dec 18, 2008

NATO a House Divided Against Itself?

By James Joyner

NATO must “find a political voice or collapse,” says Times of London defense editor Michael Evans.  “It has become so multi-tasked, so desperate to get involved in everything from cyber warfare to anti-piracy and missile defence, let alone a hugely draining and complex campaign in Afghanistan, that it has lost its way.”

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Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 11, 2008

Fixing NATO

By James Joyner

“What About NATO?” asks an unsigned Economist editorial, with the ambitious subhead “How the alliance should move forward.” Its premise is that the Georgia crisis demonstrated NATO’s lack of will to stand up to Russian aggression and created serious doubts among the Alliance’s new members, especially “Poles, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians” and that therefore “NATO’s […]

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New Atlanticist

Dec 9, 2008

Georgia and Ukraine: Circumnavigating the MAP

By Jeffrey Mankoff

Washington and London have proposed dropping the NATO MAPs for Georgia and Ukraine, favoring instead an open-ended development plan to bring both countries closer to membership. While Germany and France protest such unorthodoxy, this more flexible approach may allow NATO to prudently balance its interests with Russia and for eventual Georgian-Ukrainian expansion.

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2008

Georgia in NATO — It Just Makes Sense

By David Smith

NATO foreign ministers will meet in Brussels today to, in the words of the April 3 NATO Bucharest Summit Statement, “make a first assessment” on Georgia’s quest for membership in the alliance.  In the aftermath of Russia’s August attack on Georgia, a Membership Action Plan (MAP) is not now politically possible.

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2008

Russia to NATO: Let’s Invade Somalia

By Derek Reveron

The latest seizure of a Saudi oil tanker by Somali pirates presents an opportunity to improve relations between Russia and NATO. Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has called for an international ground military operation to better combat rampant piracy in the region. “It’s up to the European Union, NATO and others to launch a […]

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Security & Defense

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Nov 19, 2008

Transcript: Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Talks to Council

By Peter Cassata

Full transcript of the November 19, 2008 event featuring Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski.

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