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.

Boehner: U.S. mission in Libya will violate War Powers law on June 19

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Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war

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As the US-Israeli war against Iran reverberates across the Middle East and the globe, Atlantic Council experts bring clarity to the fast-moving events.

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Boehner: U.S. mission in Libya will violate War Powers law on June 19

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

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At an Atlantic Council Front Page event, Jovanovic talked about the supply chains he is working to reshape, from critical minerals to energy.

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United States and Canada

Boehner: U.S. mission in Libya will violate War Powers law on June 19

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Feb 25, 2026

Why the Arctic matters to the United States

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Julia Nesheiwat

The region is rapidly becoming a geopolitical arena where Russia and China’s deepening cooperation challenges Western dominance.

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NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Boehner: U.S. mission in Libya will violate War Powers law on June 19

By James Rowley, Bloomberg

From James Rowley, Bloomberg:  Expressing rising Republican frustration with the U.S. military involvement in Libya, House Speaker John Boehner told President Barack Obama in a letter yesterday that without congressional authorization, the mission would be in violation of the War Powers Resolution on June 19.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Britain needs to reverse its defense cuts

By Con Coughlin, the Telegraph

From Con Coughlin, the Telegraph:  With every day that passes, the wanton destruction visited upon our Armed Forces by the Government’s inept handling of last year’s Strategic Defence and Security Review becomes more evident.

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NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Czech Republic pulls out of US missile shield plan

By Karel Janicek, the AP

From Karel Janicek, the AP:  The Czech Republic is withdrawing from U.S. missile defense plans out of frustration at its diminished role, the Czech defense minister told The Associated Press Wednesday.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

How serious is the split between the US and Europe over defense spending?

By James Blitz, the Financial Times

From James Blitz, the Financial Times:  Europe’s declining interest in paying for global security is becoming a serious anxiety for policymakers in Washington.

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NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: Dead? Not Likely

By Lawrence S. Kaplan, the New York Times

From Lawrence S. Kaplan, the New York Times:  Burden sharing has been a problem for NATO since the beginning of the alliance.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: A Crisis of Ambition

By Alexis Crow, the New York Times

From Alexis Crow, the New York Times:  For the most part, American statesmen have tended to see NATO as a collective defense community built on Western values, ideally harboring the ability to carry out operations across the globe to secure these values — in essence, a "global NATO.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: We Need New Partners

By James Goldgeier, the New York Times

From James Goldgeier, the New York Times:  Europe will, however, have to do more for its own security as time goes on.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: Europe’s Waning Influence

By Kori Schake, the New York Times

From Kori Schake, the New York Times: Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s speech was less a slap at Europeans to spend more (a case he has made consistently during his tenure) than a warning that their influence is waning.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 15, 2011

Response to Gates: Alliance of the Unwilling

By Josef Joffe, the New York Times

From Josef Joffe, the New York Times:  The French defense budget is 1.8 percent of G.D.P., the British is 2.2 percent — a long way from the 3 percent to 4 percent in the cold war.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 14, 2011

Gates to NATO: Drop dead?

By Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

From Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy:  NATO has been on borrowed time ever since the Soviet Union collapsed, because military alliances form primarily to deal with external threats and they are hard to hold together once the threat is gone.

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