Americas

A Mideast Watershed: The End of US Domination?

A 35-Year Pax Americana is waning, says former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren The recent years’ decline of US power and assertiveness in the Middle East has created a power vacuum there that may end 35 years of American pre-eminence in the region, said Michael Oren, Israeli historian and former ambassador to the United States. “While […]

The Poll In-Depth: Attitudes on Engagement

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

Perception of US Diplomatic Relations with Other Nations Respondents were asked to rank the closeness of the United States’ relationship with various countries using a 1-7 scale. This question helped determine understanding of the current status of the United States’ international relationships. An overwhelming majority of people indicated very close ties to England, with a strong […]

Next Steps: How President Obama Should Advance US-Cuba Relations

By Ted Piccone

In 2009, President Obama began relaxing tough sanctions on Cuba, expanding the free flow of people and remittances and planting the seeds of a new paradigm for U.S.-Cuba relations – one that looks beyond the outdated Cold War-era approach that has been employed for so long.

The Beginning of the End

By Pedro Freyre and Matthew Aho

The results of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center poll on Americans’ attitudes on U.S.–Cuba relations can be interpreted in only one way: the tide of U. S. public opinion has turned away from isolation and toward engagement and normalization.

US-Cuba: A New Public Survey Supports Policy Change

By Peter Schechter and Jason Marczak

Why is now the right moment to commission a poll on the US public’s views toward Cuba and US-Cuba relations? Why is a new, nonpartisan Latin America center reaching out to grab the third rail of Latin American foreign policy in the United States? Both good questions. Sometimes in foreign policy, structural impediments or stark […]

The Next Chapter in European Presence and Partnerships

By Bruce W. Clingan, US Navy

USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) is heading east, on a course that will make the ship the first of four destroyers to be forward deployed in the Naval Forces Europe operating area.

New Era in French-American Military Cooperation

By François Heisbourg, New York Times

France worries deeply — as do other European and Middle Eastern allies — about America’s foreign policy shift after Iraq and Afghanistan, its reluctance to put American forces in the front line in the world’s trouble spots.

Prospects of Relationship between Cuba and the United States

By Miriam Leiva

(translated from Spanish) Cuba has been used in the confrontation with the United States to isolate Cubans from the outside world, justify the failures of the plans executed by the will of Fidel Castro , violate the rights and suppress any different opinion than that authorized by the government.