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Joshua Clapp: With the Chicago Summit wrapped up, the pundits are weighing in about what they think the Summit accomplished and what it means for NATO. If most of the commentators are correct about the Summit, then the Alliance should not be congratulating itself too much.
The recent NATO summit in Chicago left much to be desired. Many commentators could not identify concrete results from the gathering, and the few specific steps taken were slammed. Even the protests against the Alliance were underwhelming. A look at the gloomy media coverage following the Summit:Despite praises for NATO from Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Chicago did not necessarily see the benefits of NATO coming to the city. A Chicago ...More
Philip Murphy: The US Ambassador to Germany spoke at atlantic-community.org’s event in Berlin about transparency for NATO in the 21st century, how the Atlantic Memo provides a “good solid policy report” on this important issue, and the value of youth engagement in transatlantic relations.
At the "Your Ideas, Your NATO" event in Berlin on May 21, Ambassador of the United States to Germany Philip Murphy addressed the audience on a number of important issues, including how the goal of youth engagement and the proposed transparency initiatives in Atlantic Memo 38 work hand-in-hand as important policies for a 21st Century NATO.
The Ambassador stated that transparency was a clear shared value among NATO Members and ...More
Editorial Team: At the culmination of atlantic-community.org’s policy workshop competition, the winners Stephanie Baulig, Geoffrey Levin, and Samuel Erickson discussed their team’s policy recommendations with Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense Christian Schmidt and US Ambassador Philip D. Murphy.
The winners of our policy workshop competition "Your Ideas, Your NATO" presented the Atlantic Memos on NATO Values and Community, NATO Partnerships after the Arab Spring, and Smart Defense to US Ambassador Philip D. Murphy and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense Christian Schmidt in Berlin on May 21, 2012. The decision makers paid tribute to the engagement of this generation of future leaders and gave ...More
Balazs Ujvari: The established foreign aid paradigm is being challenged by the power shift occurring across the global economy. Emerging economies are beginning to change the rules of the game. This paper examines the differences in approaches between China and DAC countries in providing aid to Africa.
In the face of the increasing aid from China, South Korea, Brazil, Venezuela, India or the Arab states, among others, to developing countries, the international aid regime is undergoing vital reforms, aiming at increasing aid effectiveness and achieving implementation. The way how these (re)emerging donors provide their development assistance significantly differs from, and remains outside the framework of established ...More
Sami Kronenfeld: Representatives from the US, Europe, Russia, and China are meeting with their Iranian counterparts to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. The talks can only be successful if Europe and the US reach an agreement with Russia and China on what to do if Iran does not follow international agreements.
Today, the Western powers, Russia and China will convene with Iranian representatives in Baghdad for the second round of talks regarding the latter's nuclear program. Although the main issue on the table will be the halting of Iran's 20% uranium enrichment, the chief objective of the West should revolve around bringing Russia and China in line with the West’s economic and political pressure if and when Iran would indeed ...More
Marek Swierczynski: NATO’s Chicago Summit announced the first phase of Ballistic Missile Defense as operational. The news was welcomed in Warsaw, but nobody rejoiced, as one of the country’s strategic priorities in transatlantic relations had moved far away from its borders. No one knows if it will ever come back.
Once upon a time a team of Twin Leaders ruled a troubled country in the heart of Europe – Leaders who have long dreamed about changing geopolitics and wanted their country to restore the might it posessed centuries ago – the might that was primarily used to fend off the Evil from the East. Luckily for them, the Great Leader in the West was in need. He asked for troops for his wars and a good word ...More
Ilija Djugumanov: Only a year and a half since the New Strategic Concept was adopted, NATO has many challenges to deal with. As the global situation changes, so do the priorities of the Alliance. In light of the situation, where exactly are the Balkans on NATO’s agenda?
The summit Chicago was seen as a follow up to the one in Lisbon. In a time when new threats and challenges are emerging, it can be clearly seen that enlargement is not high on the agenda.As a part of the delegation of YATA Macedonia, on invitation from the Public Diplomacy Division of NATO in January 2012, I had the chance to visit NATO’s HQ. In a briefing concerning the NATO Summit in Chicago, five important issues were ...More
Editorial Team: The many good ideas from non-shortlisted authors in the third category of our “Your Ideas, Your NATO” competition have been brought together in this article. A recurring theme was the need for NATO to more precisely define its and the Members’ roles in order for Smart Defense to be implemented successfully.
The current financial woes have underlined the need for more efficient defense spending, not only by individual NATO Members but also by the Alliance as a whole. Smart Defense, "ensuring greater security, for less money, by working together with more flexibility", is one way to address the issue. However, countries have reservations about the pooling of defense resources, seeing as such initiatives might result in diminished sovereignty. ...More
Stefanie Babst: NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy appeared at atlantic-community.org’s policy debate in Berlin yesterday via video, offering her reaction to the three Atlantic Memos from the policy workshop competition.
Memos from the "Your Ideas, Your NATO" competition have also received feedback from US Ambassador to Germany Philip Murphy and other policy makers from NATO Member governments, including the Defense Minister of Canada.
Joerg Wolf: A plethora of op-eds in the US and German media argue that the Alliance needs to be rescued, revitalized, resurrected, and reinvented. The think tankers want to reaffirm or renegotiate the transatlantic bargain and look for a revolution to overcome geostrategic irrelevance.
Many editorials and op-eds paint quite a gloomy picture of NATO on the eve of its Chicago Summit. Secretary Rasmussen’s signature project Smart Defense is seen most skeptically. A review of eight articles and two Senate testimonies:
1. Patrick Keller and Gary Schmitt, respectively from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and American Enterprise Institute, conclude in the Wall Street Journal op-ed “Revitalizing the Atlantic ...More
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