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Editorial Team: The NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy has responded to your questions and policy recommendations! In this first of two installments, he answers questions about cooperation with countries touched by the Arab Spring, discusses an Atlantic Memo proposal for a Global Partnership Council, and many more.
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Editorial Team: Join Atlantic Community for our first Question & Answer session of 2012. NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy James Appathurai will be taking your questions on NATO partnerships and regional initiatives, and answering in a video response.
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Estephanie Henaro: China’s economic outgrowth is about more than commercial relationships. It has used its influence on the Australian economy, traditionally a cornerstone of US-led regional stability, to consolidate its access to key energy supplies and assert its own hegemonic structure in the Pacific.
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Editorial Team: Atlantic-community.org recently passed two milestones, breaking the 1000-‘like’ barrier on Facebook just days after tallying 1000 followers on Twitter.
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Joel Kotkin: Presidential candidates concentrate on relations with Pakistan, Russia, China or other troublesome and distant places. Instead, they should first consider building stronger relations with countries who share America’s values as well as demographic vitality, e.g. Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Australia’s role in Afghanistan is often questioned by “the progressive Left and hard-headed strategists”, who believe in an early withdrawal from Afghanistan. ++ However, they fail to realize that a stable Afghanistan is crucial to Australian interests, both because of its commitment to human rights and its stake in obstructing a broader regional meltdown which otherwise would have
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Last week Rio Tinto, the Australian mining giant, saw four of its executives arrested in Shanghai on spying charges. ++ The arrests took place directly after a deal between Rio and a Chinese state-owned company was cancelled. ++ Dirty politics may be natural for the Chinese, but Beijing should rethink its clumsy attempts to control business through political pressure. ++ These policies will not
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The EU and US are engaging in robust diplomacy to isolate Mugabe and alleviate the horrific humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. ++ Australian PM Kevin Rudd, on the other hand, has failed to honor his country’s strong record in humanitarianism and has remained conspicuously silent. ++ Australia should be employing its “middle power” to lead the way in international efforts to
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The myth of decoupled markets is all but shattered. ++ Asian countries, especially China, who benefited from trade imbalances and western overconsumption, will have difficulty adjusting. ++ In reaction to these new economic conditions trade deficit countries could absorb the production imbalance through government spending; trade surplus countries could attempt to increase domestic consumption to
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Australians should replace eating beef and lamb with kangaroo meat in order to fight climate change. ++ Marsupials, such as Kangaroos, produce low-emission waste and have less biophysical impact on water scarcity. ++ Kangaroo had been the main source of meat for most Australians for 60,000 years and could make a come back. ++ The switch should be relatively easy, both on farms and in homes, but
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With power changing hands in the US, the time has come for Australia to reconsider its position towards the American leadership and acquire some confidence and self reliance. ++ Both ventures with the US in Vietnam and Iraq were disastrous, and placed Australia on the side of the politically defeated. ++ Australia need not systematically be a follower when it comes to matters of national security.
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The time is ripe for international action on global warming, argues Columbia Economist Jeffrey Sachs. Scientists have clearly identified the causes of the problem, as well as affordable solutions, and recommendations must be implemented in advance of the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol. Since public awareness of the risks at hand has risen sharply and demands for action are peaking in
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