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New Atlanticist

Jul 9, 2010

Do the Rest Need the West?

By Nikolas Gvosdev

Three years ago, Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner and Steven Weber sounded a warning: the rest of the world was not necessarily looking to integrate into a Euro-Atlantic hub. They noted: "The landscape of globalization now looks like this: While connectivity for the globe as a whole has increased in the last twenty years, it is […]

NATOSource

Jul 5, 2010

The Significance of Afghnistan to Transatlantic Security

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  The Second World War finally brought home what the First World War should already have taught us:  the security of Europe and North America is indivisible.  Instability and insecurity on one side of the Atlantic will inevitably affect the other side of the “big pond”.

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Jul 2, 2010

Young Diplomats for Democracy Symposium Speaker Bios

Click here to return to YDD Symposium event page Click here to view YDD Symposium Agenda Rodger Potocki is Director for Europe and Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy, a leading democracy-building foundation based in Washington, DC. He holds a MA in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University, teaches Central European history […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2010

Transatlantic Clash at G20?

By James Joyner

Stuart Eizenstadt and Caio Koch-Weser correctly argue that it’s time for "a renaissance of joint economic and political leadership by the U.S. and the EU and its members" at tomorrow’s G20 Summit.   We won’t, however, be getting it.

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2010

A European State That Has Friendly Ties With Russia

By Adrian Karatnycky

Is Ukraine drifting toward Russia and away from Europe? Several recent developments suggest it may be. Although the pendulum has swung toward Moscow, a case can be made that a foreign policy balance will be struck in the coming months.

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New Atlanticist

May 28, 2010

Ukraine: Fear and Loathing on the Post-Campaign Trail

By Adrian Karatnycky

Reading the Kyiv Post and many of Ukraine’s other newsweeklies, one gets the impression that a measure of hysteria has seized normally sober-minded and serious analysts. Respected analysts speak in dire terms of a wholesale sellout of Ukraine to Russia and of the consolidation of dictatorship.

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New Atlanticist

May 25, 2010

An Olympic Opportunity

By Kurt Volker

With summer arriving, it might seem early to be thinking through the politics of the 2014 Winter Olympics. But the next Winter Games are to be held in Sochi, Russia, just a few miles from Abkhazia, a territory Russia broke off from Georgia by military force in 2008. Simply put, this will be tricky. Preparations […]

NATOSource

May 20, 2010

A New NATO-Based Alliance

By Conrad Black, the National Review

From Conrad Black, the National Review: NATO today is essentially an arrangement between formerly Soviet-occupied countries in desperate need, for obvious historic reasons, of a U.S. military guarantee against Russia, and a cordial alliance that includes a democratic Germany; and the countries that joined the U.S.-led NATO originally to resist Soviet expansionism, and that now […]

New Atlanticist

May 19, 2010

When the Kremlin Smiles, Beware the Teeth

By Henrik Liljegren

"The face of modern Russia is a smiling face,” Russian President Medvedev said on April 26. “But other countries must smile back at us.” Lately news about Russia’s relations with the West has led to all sorts of speculation and comments.

New Atlanticist

Apr 21, 2010

Russia-Poland “Reset”?

By Angela Stent

Will the tragic plane crash over Smolensk that killed 96 of Poland’s top political elite provide the opening for a less fraught and more productive Russian-Polish relationship? That would require both countries coming to terms with a contested history, and with policy differences over the joint EU- Russia neighborhood, pipeline politics and broader questions of […]

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