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Does the EU have “NATO envy?”

By Charlemagne, the Economist

From Charlemagne, the Economist:  It is the biggest, closest and richest friendship in the world, and its most important military alliance. America and Europe account for half of global GDP and nearly one-third of trade. Each side of the North Atlantic has more than 1 trillion invested in the other. Yet the partnership is strangely unbalanced. […]

Advancing U.S., African, and Global Interests: Security and Stability in the West African Maritime Domain

On November 30, 2010, the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center and On The Horizon project hosted an event launching the release of a landmark report, ‘Advancing U.S., African, and Global Interests: Security and Stability in the Maritime Domain.’

Advancing U.S., African, and Global Interests: Security and Stability in the West African Maritime Domain

By John Raidt and Kristen E. Smith

The Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center and On The Horizon Project have officially released a landmark report on the rising importance of U.S. national security interests in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, entitled: “Advancing U.S., African, and Global Interests: Security and Stability in the West Africa Maritime Domain.” Download the PDF

Russia Moves Nuclear Warheads Near Border with NATO Allies

By Adam Entous and Jonathan Weisman, the Wall Street Journal

From Adam Entous and Jonathan Weisman, the Wall Street Journal:  The U.S. believes Russia has moved short-range tactical nuclear warheads to facilities near North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies as recently as this spring

Europe’s Myopic Defense Cuts

By Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, the Project Syndicate

From Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, the Project Syndicate:  All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a new age of austerity takes hold. Defense expenditures are proving to be the easiest of targets.

France stands by U.S. after WikiLeaks cables

By Reuters

Partners for Peace? Just Possibly

By John Vinocur, the International Herald Tribune

From John Vinocur, the International Herald Tribune:  NATO’s final communiqué didn’t talk of seeing a “strategic partnership” with Russia

Diplomatic Cables Reveal US Doubts about Turkey’s Government

By Spiegel

The Wikileaks Cables and Transatlantic Relations

By Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren, the New York Times

From Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren, the New York Times:  A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

NATO Rejects Russian Missile Defense Offer

By Stephen Fidler and Gregory L. White, the Wall Street Journal

From Stephen Fidler and Gregory L. White, the Wall Street Journal:  Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have rebuffed a proposal from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to unite Russia’s missile defenses with those of the West, said diplomats and NATO officials.