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China and Iran: Economic, Political, and Military Relations

Scott Harold & Alireza Nader, RAND Corporation | May 2012
Over the past few decades, China and Iran have developed a broad and deep partnership centered on China's energy needs and Iran's abundant resources as well as significant non-energy economic ties, arms sales and defense cooperation, ...More

A Still-Strong Alliance

Charles A. Kupchan, Hoover Institution | May 2012
This essay examines transatlantic relationships over the past two decades and the reasons behind why the Western alliance has been able to survive despite predictions of demise. Particular emphasis is given to what the skeptics got right and what they got wrong, including ...More

How to Make Smart Defense a Success

Tomas Valasek, GLOBSEC 2012 | April 2012
The financial crisis has hit the defense budgets of NATO members. With no prospects for an economic upturn in sight, NATO has been urging its members to save money through specialization and collaboration, under the 'smart defense' initiative. But smart defense has ...More

A Compass for the CSDP

Int'l Security Policy Working Group, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung | April 2012
The European Union's Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) is intended to enable Europe to actively pursue peace in its neighborhood. From the beginning, it has been a key concern of the Social Democrats' policy on Europe. Emerging from EU impotence in the face of the ...More

Turkish Delight? The Feasibility of the "Turkish Model" for Egypt

Mohamed S. Younis, Turkish Policy Quarterly | March 2012
While comparisons and arguments for why the Turkish Model is relevant to burgeoning MENA countries now undergoing transition abound, the infeasibilities of "selling" this model have been less explored. This article makes the ...More

New Socio-Political Actors in North Africa: A Transatlantic Perspective

Silvia Colombo, Paola Caridi & Jane Kinninmont, GMFUS | March 2012
The chapters in this report analyze a number of features of each of the three socio-political actors in North Africa: the civil society, economic actors, and Islamist parties. It looks at their role in the current phase of ...More

Europe and the Arab Revolutions: A New Vision for Democracy and Human Rights

Susi Dennison & Anthony Dworkin, ECFR | March 2012
The Arab revolutions present the EU with a distinct challenge: still embarrassed by their support for the stability offered by the former authoritarian leaders, it now aims at supporting the fledgling democracies and human ...More

Europe Without Defense

Christian Mölling, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik | February 2012
NATO's operation in Libya has revealed significant deficiencies in European defense. It is not only that Europe's defense capability is chronically underdeveloped and the USA's support is dwindling. The resources that would allow European states to deal with these deficits are ...More

Latin America's Economies: Innocent Bystanders?

Eduardo Levy-Yeyati & Luciano Cohan, Brookings | January 2012
Latin America recovered strongly from the financial crisis of 2008-9, but now the region is feeling the pains of financial stress and dwindling global demand. Nevertheless, the major economies (the LAC-7: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, ...More

NATO's Chicago Summit: A Thorny Agenda

Karl-Heinz Kamp, NATO Defense College | January 2012
NATO is currently preparing for its summit meeting in Chicago in May 2012. This event was originally planned as a sort of "routine meeting“ which should primarily assess the progress made in implementing all the tasks NATO's Heads of States and ...More