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Guy Sorman: Governments throughout Western Europe are suffering from a dearth of popular support. Leaders from the left, right and center of the political spectrum have all seen drops in approval ratings. They have proven themselves incapable of explaining the economic crisis to their citizens and lack vision.
In the Western part of Europe - the part that former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld maliciously labeled "Old Europe" - almost every government is in deep political trouble. The United Kingdom's new coalition government may be the exception - for now. In the European Union's big member states, the popularity ratings of leaders - Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, Angela Merkel in Germany, and José Luís ...More
From the Editorial Team: The Atlantic Initiative has teamed up with Germany’s best-selling daily newspaper BILD to encourage readers to write personal messages of support to German soldiers stationed in Afghanistan in an effort to boost morale.
The Atlantische Initiative e.V. (the publisher of atlantic-community.org) believes that foreign policy should not remain the exclusive prerogative of Berlin's elite circles, as it affects the lives of each and every one of us. Its core mission is to make foreign policy accessible to everyone. The joint undertaking with BILD ensures that the initiative reaches the greatest number of ordinary German citizens as possible. German Defense Minister ...More
Erik Brattberg: The new US National Security Strategy should prompt the EU to get its act together. Instead of complaining about its position on Washington’s list of priorities, Europe should aim to recapture its strategic importance by focusing on becoming a more effective foreign policy actor.
The election of Barack Obama promised change. For Europe it promised a welcome departure from the Bush doctrine with its emphasis on preemption and unilateralism and from a transatlantic relationship plagued by divisions over a score of issues ranging from the Iraq war to the ICC to the Kyoto Protocol.
And in some respects President Obama has also brought such change. A year and a half into his presidency, Obama has already pledged to close the ...More
Bernard Joseph Esposo Guerrero: The globalization of food security discourse is a product of discursive processes. By putting together and analyzing the factors influencing the problem, such as politics, international relations, globalization, trade, and even culture, a new perspective can be gained.
The literature on food
security has mainly been focused on causes, effects, and/or
the nature of the crisis. However, there have been only a few attempts to
understand how the discourse on the subject matter was shaped and is
still being shaped at present. Food security is at the intersection of many disciplines, and the factors perpetuating the crisis are largely diverse – population, social inequalities, nutrition ...More
Open Dialogue: NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Mark Sedwill discusses the outcomes of the International Conference on Afghanistan and invites questions and comments from Atlantic Community’s members.
In the video clip below, Ambassador Sedwill shares the key outcomes of
the International Conference on Afghanistan - and the way ahead:
Atlantic-community.org and Ambassador Mark Sedwill invite you to participate in the second installment of a two-part dialogue series focused on the International Conference on Afghanistan, held in Kabul on July 20, 2010.
As NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, Ambassador Sedwill carries ...More
Greg Randolph Lawson: The fundamental shortcoming of the arms control agreement now before the US Senate is the lack of an effective verification scheme. A hybrid treaty embracing the START I verification regime with the limits on nuclear weapons established by the 2002 SORT Treaty is to be preferred to the current one.
Does the newly negotiated START Treaty between the United States and Russia compromise American security and/or the security of its allies? The answer is not simple for either side in the debate. It is this very ambiguity that will, and probably should, make ratification of the treaty by the US Senate anything but a foregone conclusion.
The new START Treaty signed by US President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ...More
Die Atlantic Community Redaktion: In einer gemeinsamen Kampagne setzen sich Bild.de und atlantic-community.org für die über 4.000 Soldaten der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan ein. Damit sie für ihren riskanten Einsatz mehr moralische Unterstützung erfahren, können Sie ihnen jetzt elektronische Feldpost senden.
In order to support the German soldiers in their difficult mission in Afghanistan, the Atlantic Initiative, publisher of atlantic-community.org, joined forces with Germany's biggest daily newspaper BILD and initiated the campaign "Feldpost für unsere Soldaten" Therefore the following text is written in German. Please find more information about this project's purpose and first results here.
BILD.de und die Atlantische Initiative e.V. starteten die ...More
Shabana Basij-Rasikh and Zohra Safi: Promoting the active participation of Afghan women at the Kabul Conference and beyond is a vital step towards securing a successful outcome in Afghanistan. Women must play an important role in shaping the country’s democratic future.
Educating Afghan girls and ensuring their safety are essential steps in the development process of Afghanistan. This could begin by inviting a spectrum of Afghan women, who have demonstrated a strong commitment and have made significant contributions in the areas of political, economic and social development, to address the conference concerning changing the status for women in the country and the need for the international community to ...More
Kevin Calonne: The recent resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister demonstrates how little hope there is for dissolving the iron triangle and its stranglehold on Japanese politics. The Democratic Party of Japan must urgently deal with the overwhelming bureaucracy, if its government is to succeed.
To
foreigners, especially at first sight, the latest elections in Japan were
hardly of interest. After all, it happens regularly in any democracy that a
party steps down and leaves the reins of power in the hands of a freshly
elected one. However, this political shift was plainly a revolution if we take
into account a single fact: The Liberal
Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) was in charge for 50 years. ...More
Ulf Gartzke: The West assumes that Turkey’s Islamist AKP government plays a constructive role in the Middle East, promoting “universal values.” This view is dangerously mistaken. Instead of full EU membership, a far more cautious “privileged partnership” between the EU and Turkey should be pursued for now.
A newly released policy report on Turkey
by the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic
Academy in Washington caught my eye this week. The report
was dubbed, "Getting to Zero: Turkey, Its Neighbors and the West," and the
brief's analysis and policy recommendations unfortunately display a distinct
pro-Turkish bias which fails to recognize that Ankara's aggressive foreign and
security policy posture is increasingly at odds with core U.S. and ...More
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