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New Atlanticist

Nov 18, 2008

Is Terrorist Funding Adapting to Post-9/11 Laws?

By Peter Cassata

Terrorist networks are adapting their financing methods to circumvent new anti-terror laws passed after 9/11, say Michael Jacobson and Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

New Atlanticist

Nov 18, 2008

The Iskander Effect

By David Smith

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told the Federal Assembly on November 5 that he will deploy SS-26 Iskander short-range semi-ballistic missiles in the heart of Central Europe.

European Union International Organizations

Transcript

Nov 14, 2008

CIA Director Hayden – State of al Qaeda Today – Transcript

By James Joyner

  ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES: GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE FORUM – STATE OF AL QAEDA   WELCOME: LT GEN BRENT SCOWCROFT, FORMER U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR   INTRODUCTION:  MAJGEN ARNOLD PUNARO, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   MODERATOR:  FRED KEMPE,PRESIDENT, ACUS   SPEAKER:  GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN, DIRECTOR, U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY   THURSDAY, […]

New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2008

Covering Intelligence is Hard

By James Joyner

One truism that I’ve noted over the years is that any event that I experience in person will invariably be reported in the press quite differently. That proved true again last night as I began absorbing media accounts of CIA Director Michael Hayden’s “State of al Qaeda Today” address to the Atlantic Council. 

New Atlanticist

Nov 13, 2008

Every Major Terrorist Threat Has Ties to Pakistan

By James Joyner

CIA Director Michael Hayden told the Atlantic Council this afternoon that al Qaeda’s safe haven in Pakistan’s ungoverned tribal areas have provided a “sanctuary” that has “allowed it to recover some capacity lost when expelled from Afghanistan” nearly seven years ago.

New Atlanticist

Nov 13, 2008

The Kaliningrad Missile Crisis

By Neil Leslie

The Kremlin’s latest move to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad is the first time since the Cold War that Russia has “declared its intention to create a military threat to the West.” Yet the nature of the threat does not represent a fundamental challenge to U.S. or European security and has been largely overblown on both […]

Missile Defense NATO

New Atlanticist

Nov 12, 2008

The Absence of Europe: Implications for International Security?

By Steven Kramer

Facing a worsening economic situation and a war in Iraq that will be difficult to end—in short, grave overstretch—the next U.S. administration will seek to return to a more multilateral foreign policy and attempt to work closely with Europe. But Europe may not be willing or able to meet American expectations to play a larger […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Nov 7, 2008

While We Weren’t Looking…

By Lynn Roche

The Atlantic Council’s Robert Manning recently focused our attention on the October Asia-Europe Summit in Beijing.  We Americans might have missed the significance of the emerging multipolarity and shifts in global power while up to our elbows in election politics and financial woes.

New Atlanticist

Nov 5, 2008

Asian Integration into the Global Financial Leadership

By Hugh De Santis

As almost everyone now agrees, recovery from what promises to be a protracted global recession will require a multilateral effort.   In an increasingly interconnected world, the politics of mutualism, as I have written elsewhere, will force developed as well as emerging countries to rely on each other.

New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2008

How the New York Times Sees the World

By James Joyner

The above illustration depicts the number of articles devoted by the New York Times to a given country since 2000, compiled by the gang at Gene Expression.

New Atlanticist

Oct 31, 2008

Russia May Leave Europe Out in the Cold

By Christopher Harness

The landmark pipeline deal recently signed between Russia and China connecting the Siberian oil fields with Daqing should send cold chills up Europeans’ spines.  It may very well mean they will be literally cold in the foreseeable future.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Oct 30, 2008

Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy

By James Joyner

Cernig, a pseudonymous “forty-something ex-pat Scotsman living in the USA” whose “abiding interest is foreign policy — or to be precise the domestic policy that America inflicts on foreigners,” jumps off from Bob Manning’s recent reflection on a post-American world to lament the general lack of interest of Americans in world affairs.

New Atlanticist

Oct 30, 2008

American Elections and UK Relations

By James Joyner

Sir Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, takes to the pages of the Telegraph to answer the question “Which President would be best for Britain?”  

United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2008

Restoring the German Army’s Auftragstaktik

By Florian Broschk

The German parliament has extended the Bundeswehr’s mission in Afghanistan for another fourteen months. A discussion is now needed on what goals the German army can realistically be expected to achieve and which strategy will offer the best hope for success.

Afghanistan Germany

New Atlanticist

Oct 28, 2008

Iraq Training Mission Shows NATO’s Future

By David Capezza

At the request of the provisional Iraqi government in 2004, NATO began providing training, assistance, and equipment to the Iraqi Security Forces to assist with the creation of a democratically led and enduring security sector.  This mission has grown from planning and training security forces to include advising and mentoring of security forces, both in […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Oct 27, 2008

Preconditions, Preparations, and Posturing

By James Joyner

Nick Burns, a career diplomat who recently retired after a quarter century of service as the number three ranked official in the State Department, has a long piece in Newsweek declaring “We Should Talk to Our Enemies.”  It pointedly takes John McCain to task for his repeated hammering at Barack Obama for pledging to negotiate […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 27, 2008

Sneak Preview of the Future: Who Makes New Rules?

By Robert Manning

Don’t look now, but much about last week’s Asia-Europe Summit (ASEM) – from its remedies for the financial meltdown to its obscurity in the U.S. – spoke volumes about emerging multipolarity and the historic shift in global power.  Was America watching?

New Atlanticist

Oct 22, 2008

Republican Foreign Policy Establishment, R.I.P.?

By James Joyner

Ilan Goldenberg, policy director for the National Security Network, argues that Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama for president sounds the death knell for “the Republican foreign policy establishment as we know it. The final break between traditional pragmatic foreign policy conservatives and Neocons.”

New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2008

NATO Commander Issues Call to Action

By James Joyner

General John Craddock, the Supreme Allied Commander, gave a talk this morning to RUSI, the UK’s Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, issuing his boldest pronouncements to date on the problems besetting NATO.  He details the problems with cooperation in the mission in Afghanistan that are familiar to regular readers of this […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 17, 2008

NATO Enlargement: The Unanswered Question

By James Joyner

FAS’ Steven Aftergood draws our attention to “NATO Enlargement: Albania, Croatia, and Possible Future Candidates,” [PDF] a recent study by the Congressional Research Service.

NATO Security & Defense
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