Europe Center Commentary & Analysis

New Atlanticist Feb 10, 2025

Now is Europe’s moment for decisive action on Ukraine

By Léonie Allard, Ian Brzezinski

Make Trump an offer he can’t refuse: European allies should propose deploying troops in Ukraine.
Conflict Europe & Eurasia
Europe Center Commentary & Analysis

New Atlanticist Feb 4, 2025

The next German chancellor must lead from the front, not the middle, on European security

By Rachel Rizzo, James Batchik

From support for Ukraine to defense spending, German leaders would be wise to take the phrase Führung aus der Mitte permanently out of their vocabulary.
Elections Germany
Europe Center Commentary & Analysis

New Atlanticist Sep 15, 2024

The case for a comprehensive US-EU economic agreement

By L. Daniel Mullaney and Bruce Stokes

A successful future US-EU trade agreement must learn from and avoid the mistakes of past transatlantic trade efforts.
Economy & Business European Union

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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.

Russia Ukraine

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.

Ukraine

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 […]

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 […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 14, 2010

Viktor Yanukovych Goes to Washington

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.

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Apr 13, 2010

Poland: Hope From Tragedy?

By James Joyner

They say every cloud has a silver lining.  The tragic plane crash that took the lives of so many of Poland’s finest over the weekend may be a case in point, providing an opportunity to heal wounds old and new. President Obama has announced that he will attend the funeral. The White House said today […]

New Atlanticist

Mar 5, 2010

Armenia Genocide: Turkey Relations Damaged Over History Lesson

By James Joyner

Once again, the United States Congress — famously unable to reach accord on even simple matters of domestic policy — has spent its precious time making a point of officially calling the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 genocide.  

New Atlanticist

Mar 4, 2010

Ukraine Partition Debate Irresponsible and Dangerous

By Adrian Karatnycky

Every scholar, writer, or intellectual takes on serious obligations toward the reader when he or she engages in speculation or hypothesis.  Among the most important of these obligations is to assess the probability of his proposition and, if the probability is remote, to be cognizant the consequences and uses of his exercise in speculative analysis.

Russia Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Feb 22, 2010

Deep Transatlantic Tensions Spotlighted by Obama Effect

By Kurt Volker

President Barack Obama took office in late January 2009, and there can be little doubt that he remains highly popular in Europe a year on. But it is also hard to escape the conclusion that despite the best of intentions on both sides of the Atlantic, there is dissatisfaction with the state of transatlantic relations.

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