With Crises Come Great Opportunities
Many times we hear or read about how a country or a city overcame adversity to emerge stronger and with a renewed sense of purpose: Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall, New York after September...
View ArticleThe Future of NATO: More Than Just Collective Security
Over the past two decades, NATO has faced the question of its relevance, entered into military interventions, and recently proven itself necessary again through the surprising events on Europe’s...
View ArticleManaging 21st Century Change within the Transatlantic Community
One can compare generational changes within families to transatlantic relations, which is similarly experiencing this phenomenon due to political forces and demographic trends on both sides of the...
View ArticleIs Marriage the Answer to a Transatlantic Relationship?
The transatlantic partnership constitutes the world’s strongest, most comprehensive and strategically most important relationship. We share a history, we inspire each other, and we buy each other’s...
View ArticleLessons from History for the Transatlantic Relationship
As a man who spent his youth in a communist state surrounded by propaganda, I am reluctant to praise any political idea uncritically. There is no doubt that the transatlantic partnership has been...
View ArticleTime to Erase the Line between Old and New NATO Members
Photo | NATO WARSAW—It is time to call a spade a spade. By annexing Crimea, supplying separatists with weapons and personnel, and now directly intervening in Ukraine, Russia has broken the rules-based...
View ArticleU.S. and European Publics Support a More Traditional Role for NATO
WASHINGTON—The crises in Syria and Ukraine have exposed troubling shortfalls in NATO’s capabilities. Even as conflict moves closer to the borders of the European Union, the alliance has few options as...
View ArticleDespite Concerns, France Can Play an Important Role in NATO’s Future
PARIS—Paris is not holding its breath for the upcoming NATO Summit in Newport, Wales. France’s traditional ambivalence towards NATO, which still informs its thinking about the Alliance, means that its...
View ArticleThe next NATO Summit 2016 offers Poland opportunities worth seizing
BRUSSELS – Twenty-five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe, modern-day Poland is by many measures the most successful case of post-communist political and economic transition to...
View ArticleWhy Another “Reset” With Russia Won’t Change Reality
WASHINGTON – Last September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for a “Reset 2.0” between Russia and the United States. While criticizing the United States and NATO for returning to Cold...
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