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New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2010

End Of This World?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

North Korea can target, attack and sink a South Korean warship, kill 46 of the South Korean crew but South Korea cannot retaliate without triggering a barrage of shells from North Korea’s 11,000 artillery tubes that can lay waste Seoul, a capital city of 11 million. North Korea is also a rogue nuclear power and […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 4, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill A 9/11 Wake-Up Call?

By Harlan Ullman

The explosion on Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent torrent of oil pouring into the gulf could be the United States’ worst environmental catastrophe.

Energy & Environment

Issue Brief

Jun 3, 2010

International Maritime Safety and Security Exchange

By Harry G. Ulrich III

An International Maritime Safety and Security Exchange is urgently needed to improve efficiency and security through increased domain awareness and expedited information sharing, says retired Admiral Harry G. Ulrich III, former Commander of  U.S. Naval Forces in Europe. Download the PDF

Maritime Security Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 3, 2010

NATO or Israel?

By James Joyner

Israel’s attack on a Gaza aid flotilla, killing nine, has earned near-universal condemnation, with even sympathetic observers terming it the act of a bully, tone deaf, staggeringly stupid, tactically incompetent, a major tactical blunder, a moral victory for Hamas, and an unqualified disaster for Israel’s reputation. But Israel is rather accustomed to international scorn and […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2010

Democratic Change It’s Not

By Borut Grgic

There are basically two schools of thought when it comes to explaining what happened in Kyrgyzstan in April. Proponents of the democracy school will argue that what we witnessed was a legitimate uprising against an unjust and oppressive regime set up by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The other school, the realists, will explain the April events […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2010

Russia: A NATO Member?

By Donald Bandler and Jakub Kulhanek

Apart from a now customary display of Russia’s military might, the recent commemoration of the victory over Nazi Germany in Moscow witnessed a strange spectacle of NATO troops marching on Red Square.  The presence of its erstwhile enemy has stirred controversy in Russia.

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2010

NSS Review: Vision and Questions

By Ioan Mircea Pascu

The Obama administration’s National Security Strategy is even more important because it comes at a crucial time: the international system is heavily affected by economic and financial crisis, conflict, disorder and successive natural disasters.

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2010

Pakistani Paradoxes

By Harlan Ullman

Pakistan has become the center of a vortex whose swirling and powerful forces threaten to disrupt far more than that country and the South Asian region.

Issue Brief

Jun 1, 2010

NATO, Terrorism and Irregular Threats

By Sebastian Gorka and Julian Lindley-French

In the latest Issue Brief, Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) members Sebastian Gorka and Julian Lindley-French discuss NATO’s role in 21st Century warfare as it moves to address non-traditional threats. Download the PDF

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 1, 2010

NSS Review: How Will It Be Managed?

By Laura Hall

The Obama National Security Strategy was released on May 27. Such a broad document inevitably includes vague words like “engage” and “ensure” and “seek to,” that describe without defining.

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2010

Obama’s National Security Strategy Sleight-of-Hand

By James Joyner

George Kennan famously defined national security as "the continued ability of this country to pursue its internal life without serious interference."  The Obama Administration, with the release of its National Security Strategy, has re-defined it beyond all meaning.

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2010

Will China Rule the World?

By Robert Manning

Have the past two centuries of a Western defined and dominated world order — the norms, rules and ways of thinking about the world — the very concept of modernity — been a historical anomaly?

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2010

National Security Strategy Instant Reactions

By James Joyner

Yesterday, Derek Reveron gave us a National Security Strategy preview.  Today, the 52-page document is being unveiled to mixed reviews. The Obama administration is trying to make a clear break with its predecessor’s policy, in both tone and substance, while redefining "national security" to include issues that have traditionally been thought of as purely matters […]

Turkey Azerbaijan Gas Talks

New Atlanticist

May 27, 2010

Azerbaijan – Turkey High Stakes Gas Deal

By Boyko Nitzov and Galib Abbaszade

Ever since the beginnings of the modern petroleum industry in Azerbaijan in the mid-19th century, the country has, despite being a major oil exporter, also been a net gas importer. It was only recently that production from Phase I of the Shah Deniz gas-condensate field picked up, along with output of associated gas at the […]

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2010

National Security Strategy Preview

By Derek Reveron

Rumors have President Obama’s National Security Strategy, which is about a year overdue, finally being released tomorrow. After 16 months in office, the president has given many hints, most notably his Nobel Peace Prize address that emphasized international cooperation. In Oslo, he said: “America cannot insist that others follow the rules of the road if […]

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2010

NATO Needs A Slogan

By Harlan Ullman

Last week, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, came to Washington to testify before Congress and to make several public appearances discussing important issues such as Afghanistan and the future of the sixty-one year old military alliance. An avid user of Facebook and Twitter, during one of his presentations, Admiral Stavridis […]

New Atlanticist

May 25, 2010

Pakistan’s Bloody Alphabet Soup

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The Pakistani army showed no hesitation about pursuing and killing Taliban insurgents everywhere except in North Waziristan, one of the seven tribal areas where different terrorist groups have long enjoyed a privileged sanctuary. When Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was in Washington six weeks ago, he briefed his American interlocutors on the army’s […]

New Atlanticist

May 25, 2010

Onward to Kandahar

By Don Snow

The United States and its ISAF allies are inching closer to the next big battleground in Afghanistan–the assault on Kandahar City. Kandahar, of course, is both the hometown of Afghan President and sometimes U.S. buddy Hamid Karzai and the main urban redoubt of the Taliban. This juxtaposition in itself creates the parameters for the mission […]

New Atlanticist

May 21, 2010

NATO in the Present and Future: A Conversation with General John Craddock

By Jason Harmala

Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri’s latest New Atlanticist Podcast features General John Craddock, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Atlantic Council Board Director. General Craddock discusses NATO in the Horn of Africa, and European contributions to NATO operations and the planned missile defense shield.

New Atlanticist

May 21, 2010

NATO’s Center of Gravity: Political Will

By Jorge Benitez

Whether you call it alliance solidarity, unity, or cohesion, NATO needs political will to overcome the external and internal forces threatening its success in Afghanistan and ultimate survival. A consensus of transatlantic elites will not be sufficient for the Alliance to overcome the economic crisis, military conflicts, and internal friction it is currently facing.

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