Program: Future Europe Initiative

Russia and the West: Moving the Reset Forward?

By Jason Harmala

On September 9, the Atlantic Council, the Institute for Security and Development Policy and the US Army War College hosted a conference that focused on the trilateral US-Europe-Russia relationship and the current status and future of the reset. The sessions identified the obstacles and challenges facing the reset and steps for U.S. and European governments […]

“About Time, Mr President.” The Atlantic Charter Then and Now

By Julian Lindley-French

Blois, France. 14 August, 2011. Seventy years ago today President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met for the first time off the Canadian coast. “About time, Mr President”, said as the two men met. What emerged from that fateful meeting was the “Joint Declaration by the President and the Prime Minister”, which was soon […]

Europe regains the stage

By Jim Hoagland, the Washington Post

From Jim Hoagland, the Washington Post:  A spreading financial crisis has accomplished what tradition, habits of alliance management and shared security concerns could not: It has given Europe a central place in President Obama’s view of global affairs.

June 28 in Transatlantic History

By the AP

From the AP:  On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – the event which sparked World War I. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War. In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular […]

Libya and the War Powers Act

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  It would be hugely costly — for this country’s credibility, for the future of NATO and for the people of Libya — if Congress were to force President Obama to abandon military operations over Libya.

Death of Transatlantic Relationship Wildly Exaggerated

By James Joyner

The blistering farewell speech to NATO by U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates warning of a "dim, if not dismal" future for the Alliance drew the Western public’s attention to a longstanding debate about the state of the transatlantic relationship. With prominent commenters voicing concern about much more than just a two-tiered defensive alliance, questioning whether […]

2011 Freedom Awards

The 2011 Freedom Awards were presented to US Senator John McCain, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on behalf of the Polish people, Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat on behalf of his people, and Solidarity stalwarts Adam Michnik and Helena Łucywo of Gazeta Wyborcza. This year’s awards dinner also paid tribute posthumously to former US Deputy […]