Europe & Eurasia

NATO military leader: “NATO is not in Libya to decide the future of the Libyan people”

By Daniel Michaels and Charlse Duxbury, the Wall Street Journal

From Daniel Michaels and Charlse Duxbury, the Wall Street Journal:  Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola, chairman of the NATO Military Council and the alliance’s most senior military official, said the NATO operation, dubbed Unified Protectorate, entails enforcing an arms-embargo and no-fly zone and protecting civilians

Chancellor Merkel’s Shellacking

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Even after pandering to voters’ fears about nuclear power, the euro and NATO operations in Libya, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany got a shellacking in her Christian Democratic party’s traditional bastion of Baden-Württemberg.

NATO in Libya, Memories of Kosovo

By Sean Kay, the Washington Note

From Sean Kay, the Washington Note:  The Kosovo war is the best case in point to think about relative to the current crisis in Libya.

U.S. and Britain have deployed clandestine forces in Libya

By Mark Hosenball, Reuters

From Mark Hosenball, Reuters:  President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

New Report: “most NATO members have taken sides in what amounts to a civil war”

By the NATO Defense College

Europe’s Troubled Neighborhood (Policy)

By Matthew Czekaj

Unlike people, countries cannot choose their own neighborhoods, and the countries of the European Union are surrounded by some pretty turbulent suburbs. Yet, collectively, the EU has not been content to give in to the geographic hand it was dealt. Rather than simply putting up a barbed wire fence – though it has tried some […]

NATO chief: No military solution to Libya crisis

By David Brunnstrom, Reuters

From David Brunnstrom, Reuters:  NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday he would not guess how long the alliance’s military mission would last in Libya, but there could be no solely military solution.

EU, not NATO, should lead on Libya

By Sarwar Kashmeri, the Foreign Policy Association

Germany’s unhappy abstention from leadership

By Constanze Stelzenmüller, the Financial TImes