United States and Canada

United States and Canada

The United States has enjoyed an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War, due to its construction of a rules-based international order and maintenance of close alliances and partnerships. Canada has been a key partner for the United States, both due to their close economic links and their shared border, the world’s longest at 5,525 miles. Canada is also a key NATO ally for the United States and is active in international diplomacy around the world.

U.S. Russia Considering Cooperation on Kyrgyzstan

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U.S. Russia Considering Cooperation on Kyrgyzstan

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Inside Trump’s long-term economic strategy, with EXIM Bank’s John Jovanovic

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U.S. Russia Considering Cooperation on Kyrgyzstan

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NATOSource

Apr 9, 2010

U.S. Russia Considering Cooperation on Kyrgyzstan

By the AP

From the AP: U.S. officials said Thursday they’re working closely with Russia to respond to the uprising in Kyrgyzstan despite previous conflict over a military base in the Central Asian nation. … Michael McFaul, Obama’s senior director for Russian affairs, emphasized that the U.S. did not view the conflict as any kind of proxy struggle […]

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NATOSource

Apr 9, 2010

NATO’s Response Force Conducts Maritime Excercise

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  NATO’s Response Force (NRF) will conduct Exercise Brilliant Mariner between 12-22 April in the Northern and Baltic Sea to ensure they are fully prepared to respond as required to world-wide operations or crisis situations. The maritime exercise will include 6,500 military personnel from 11 NATO nations, including France as Maritime commander, […]

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Apr 9, 2010

Rasmussen: NATO’s Problems and Promise

By NATO

From NATO: Diplomats, defense ministries and development experts sit together, plan together and operate together, including in Provincial Reconstruction Teams all over Afghanistan. But at the international level, this lesson has simply not yet been learnt. Let me illustrate it by a concrete example. The European Union does both development and police training in Afghanistan. […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Apr 8, 2010

Medvedev Proposes Global Missile Defense Cooperation with U.S.

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russia has proposed cooperation with the United States in creating a global missile defense system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. "We are interested in cooperating with our American partners on this issue as close as possible," Medvedev told a press conference in Prague after the two presidents signed a new nuclear […]

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NATOSource

Apr 8, 2010

START: Cultivating Old Frienships and New

By the New York Times

From the New York Times:  With flourish and fanfare, President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia signed a nuclear arms control treaty on Thursday and opened what they hoped would be a new era in the tumultuous relationship between two former cold war adversaries. Meeting here in the heart of a once-divided Europe, […]

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NATOSource

Apr 8, 2010

A New Metaphor for Afghanistan

By Foreign Policy

From Foreign Policy: Rather than describing Afghanistan with the language of war and battles, we have come to think of the country as an ailing patient — in many ways analogous to a weakened person under attack by an aggressive infection. … NATO’s combat presence in Afghanistan is considerable. At its peak, combat troops will […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2010

U.S. and Russian Bases in Kyrgyzstan Affected by Unrest

By Stars and Stripes

From Stars and Stripes: The U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan was temporarily closed on Wednesday amid anti-government protests that may have forced the country’s president to flee. A U.S. official confirmed a media report that the airport at Manas, including the U.S. air base, was closed at 8 p.m. local time and would reopen 12 […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2010

Is NATO a Pretend Alliance?

By Kim Holmes, the Foundry

From Kim Holmes, the Foundry: Afghanistan is a “NATO operation” in name only. In quality and quantity, most of the forces there are from the English-speaking countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Without a doubt, some NATO nations like Romania, Poland, and Denmark clearly understand how important this mission really […]

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Apr 7, 2010

No More Cold War Thinking

By the Guardian

From the Guardian: Julian Borger recently reported that a Nato group of experts will reject some western European countries’ suggestions that the 200 or so US tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) located in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey be withdrawn unilaterally. Borger said that on 1 May the group – co-chaired by former US […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2010

U.S. Plans Help German Nuclear Arms Removal: Westerwelle

By Reuters

From Reuters:  Washington’s plans to reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons will bolster efforts to remove the last remaining U.S. nuclear arms in Germany, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Wednesday. Westerwelle said Tuesday’s announcement by President Barack Obama that the U.S. aimed to renounce development of new atomic weapons was a "historic" step […]

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Natalie Barrett

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Scott D. Berrier

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Sarah Bauerle Danzman

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Executive Vice President

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