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New Atlanticist

Nov 10, 2010

5 Questions for Jan Lodal

By Jorge Benitez

Jan M. Lodal is Chairman of Lodal and Company and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Board.  He is a former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and was President of the Atlantic Council from October 2005 until the end of 2006. I had the opportunity to discuss his thoughts on some key […]

Event Recap

Nov 9, 2010

What Do Europeans Want From NATO?

On Tuesday, November 9th, 2010, the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) held a panel discussion entitled “What Do Europeans Want from NATO?”

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 9, 2010

US-China Game Not Zero Sum

By Patrick deGategno

The media in China, Europe, and the U.S. would have their audiences believe America’s increased engagement of Asia and China’s expanding relations with Europe constitute a fearsome, new Great Game. American and European analysts allege that China is out to eat the West’s lunch, and the Transatlantic Community must do something to stop it. Chinese […]

New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2010

Stuxnet: First Physical Weapon in Cybered Conflict Age

By Chris Demchak

Stuxnet is the first publicly known crossover cyber-to-concrete weapon and, with its success, the era of cybered conflict has officially arrived.  This malicious software hit Iran’s nascent contested nuclear reactors in situ this year, disrupting their final completion into full operations. In so doing, and unlike other viruses and malware, Stuxnet has shown the path […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Nov 8, 2010

Avoiding the Next War in the South Caucasus

By Borut Grgic

While most European governments are cutting defense spending to balance their budgets and curtail debt, there are at least two countries on the Continent that are doing the exact opposite: Azerbaijan and Armenia are both ramping up their defense spending, and have been doing so for the last several years. The two countries are locked […]

European Union International Organizations

Event Recap

Nov 4, 2010

The Transatlantic Initiative on Nordic-Baltic Security: e-PINE Workshop

On Thursday, November 4th and Friday, November 5th, the Atlantic Council, in concert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Center for Transatlantic Relations, hosted a two-part workshop in conjunction with the Enhanced Partnership in Northern Europe (e-PINE) Political Directors Meeting at the U.S. Department of State.

New Atlanticist

Nov 4, 2010

Decoding Russia’s Contradictory Messages Toward NATO

By Jason Harmala

In the latest installment of the New Atlanticist Podcast Series, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri interviews Juurd Eijsvoogel, international relations corespondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Eijsvoogel and Kashmeri discuss Russia’s declaration of NATO as a mortal threat, its willingness to attend NATO’s Lisbon Summit this month, and the meaning behind Russia’s contradictory messages.

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2010

India Awaits Obama

By Mohan Guruswamy

President Barack Obama’s visit to India on November 6th comes under the best possible circumstances. There are few expectations of any consequence in India. The United States off-course, as it is increasingly wont to these days, has a big wish list.

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2010

U.S.-India Relations: Yes, We Can

By Jasmeet Ahuja

On November 9, President Barack Obama will address India’s Joint Session of Parliament.  It was ten years ago that the last sitting U.S. president spoke before the Members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.  On that occasion President Clinton drew hearty applause when he highlighted the strength of India’s representative government: “At every election,” […]

New Atlanticist

Nov 2, 2010

Obama in India: Expectations and Opportunities

By Shikha Bhatnagar

President Obama will be making his first visit to India next week.  There is no question that the President’s trip is important as a symbol of the growing prominence of India’s role in the global economy, and its strategic importance in regional stability.

New Atlanticist

Nov 1, 2010

Repairing NATO-Pakistan Relations Part II

By Derek Reveron Nikolas Gvosdev and Hayat Alvi

Last month, we considered how NATO and Pakistan could repair relations in the wake of Pakistan asserting its sovereignty in the aftermath of a border skirmish between NATO attack helicopters and a Pakistani border post. Fortunately, the Torkham Gate has been re-opened and Afghanistan-bound supply convoys from Karachi have resumed.   The short-term crisis indicates that […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 29, 2010

Afghanistan Process Will Take Years

By James Joyner

 Ivo Daalder, the US Ambassador to NATO, says that we are "seeing the corner and can peek around it in Afghanistan" and that a province-by-province handover of security responsibilities to the host government will "start in the first half of 2011." 

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2010

Cybered Conflict as a New Frontier

By Chris Demchak

Understanding basic cybered conflict begins first with two critical adages for the cyberspace user at any organizational scale: ‘user beware’ and ‘user prepare’.  First, if you or your organization are digitally connected to others to obtain something critical to the ability to operate, neither of you can sensibly fully trust anything reachable from that connect, […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Transcript

Oct 28, 2010

Transcript: Challenges and Opportunities in the Emerging Arctic

Full transcript of a public address and conversation with Grete Faremo, Minister of Defense of Norway.

Northern Europe

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2010

U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Again Tested by Nuclear Issue

By Ronak Desai

With President Obama scheduled to visit India in early November, officials in New Delhi are working with Washington to ease American concerns over nuclear liability legislation recently enacted by the Indian parliament that effectively precludes nuclear commerce between the United States and India. Formally entitled, “Civil Liability for the Nuclear Damages Bill, 2010,” passage of […]

Event Recap

Oct 28, 2010

Challenges and Opportunities in the Emerging Arctic: A Norwegian Perspective

On October 28, the Atlantic Council’s International Security Program hosted Grete Faremo, Minister of Defense of Norway, for a public address and conversation.

Northern Europe

New Atlanticist

Oct 27, 2010

Why Great Institutions Fail

By Harlan Ullman

Why have a surprisingly large number of great institutions, supposedly impervious to failure, from super banks and mammoth insurance companies to giant automakers recently failed?  Are these spectacular failures cyclical and thus inevitable whether due to God or man?   Or are there more universal explanations? Do governments, irrespective of political basis or party affiliation, […]

Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Oct 27, 2010

NATO in an Age of Austerity

By James Joyner

 World Politics Review has published a special issue on "NATO’s Identity Crisis" ahead of next month’s Lisbon summit and the unveiling of a new Strategic Concept. I contributed the lead essay, "NATO in an Age of Austerity."

New Atlanticist

Oct 26, 2010

Save NATO: Merge it with CSDP

By Sarwar Kashmeri

NATO isn’t working, warns Sarwar Kashmeri, who advocates a U.S, Canadian and EU joint project that would "bridge" the Atlantic alliance with Europe’s fledgling defence and security framework. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has been the most successful military alliance in history. Few people on either side of the Atlantic, or anywhere else in the […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 26, 2010

Afghan Peace Solution

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

 America’s 17 intelligence agencies have spent more than half a trillion dollars — more than $500,000,000,000 — since 9/11, most of it on the global war on terror, and the Obama administration still believes that if Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhund were to return to power in Kabul, al-Qaida would be back too — […]

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