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14.12. 2006
Kosovo: Eternally dependent?
(By Richard W. Rahn)
By now, the U.N. was supposed to have resolved the final status of Kosovo, rebuilt the infrastructure, eliminated the corruption, and have the institutions of government operating on their own. Despite having spent 25 times more money and having 50 times more foreign peacekeeping troops (KFOR) than Afghanistan on a per capita basis, the above goals still have not been achieved.
Zdroj: Washington Times (USA)

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13.12. 2006
One War We Can Still Win
(By Anthony H. Cordesman)
There is a very real risk that the United States and NATO will lose their war with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the other Islamist movements fighting the Afghan government.
Zdroj: New York Times (USA)

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12.12. 2006
NATO Expansion May Prove a Fateful Error
(By By Richard Lourie)
Many in the West opposed NATO expansion, chief among them U.S. statesman George Kennan, creator of the “containment” doctrine. He called expansion “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold-War era.” Kennan foresaw it leading to the inflammation of the “nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion.” There’s still plenty of time for Kennan to be right.
Zdroj: St. Petersburg Times (Russia)

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08.12. 2006                                               TOPIC: NATO Summit in Riga
NATO’s global agenda after Riga
(By Joseph S. Nye)
The Atlantic alliance must stop dissipating its energy. One of the great costs of the Bush administration’s mistaken Iraq policy has been to divert attention and resources away from the just war in Afghanistan. If only a small portion of the money and forces invested in Iraq had been devoted to Afghanistan, the current threat of a resurgent Taliban and Al Qaeda might not be so great. Unfortunately, Iraq is draining all the oxygen out of the policy process in Washington. Few people are focused on saving NATO from a significant failure in its first major test outside of Europe. 
Zdroj: Financial Express (India)

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05.12. 2006                                               TOPIC: NATO Summit in Riga
Nato's Riga summit: next stop, big thinking
(By Sten Rynning)
Nato's heads of state and government, meeting on 28-29 November 2006 in Riga, Latvia, pledged to advance peace and security and defend common values of democracy and freedom. The area included in this commitment stretches from Afghanistan to Darfur. There is no doubting the military alliance's ambition, which is evident in the text of the summit declaration. But there is no doubt either about its primary current concern, one that reflects Nato's current troubled condition as a whole: Afghanistan.
Zdroj: Open democracy (United Kingdom)

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05.12. 2006                                               TOPIC: NATO Summit in Riga
NATO needs new strategy in Afghanistan
(By Rasul Bakhsh Rais)
Let us consider why NATO is failing and the Taliban consequently appear to be succeeding in at least mounting regular and increasingly lethal attacks. The first problem of the US that is leading the war in Afghanistan, and that of NATO is that they do not seem to be recognising or openly admitting the identity of the insurgents in Afghanistan, continuing to brand them as Taliban.
Zdroj: Daily Times (Pakistan)

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05.12. 2006                                               TOPIC: NATO Summit in Riga
NATO summit throws up a surprise
(By M K Bhadrakumar)
In comparison with Beijing's reticence, Russian observers have been quite explicit. Moscow will remain wary that the Riga summit notwithstanding, Washington has far from abandoned its agenda of NATO's membership for Ukraine and Georgia. Moscow will also closely monitor US intentions to deploy anti-ballistic-missile components in Central Europe. The Kremlin has let it be known that any US deployment of a missile defense system will be the "red line", and that if a point of no return is reached, cooperation within the framework of the Russia-NATO Council may be called into question.
Zdroj: Asia Times (Hong Kong)

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04.12. 2006                                               TOPIC: NATO Summit in Riga
Japan should enhance partnership with NATO
Japan is living in the shadow of North Korea's nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Cooperation with NATO to prevent international terrorist activities and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is essential for maintaining the security of the international community, including Japan.
Zdroj: Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan)

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04.12. 2006                                               TOPIC: NATO Summit in Riga
How NATO Chose to Fail in Afghanistan
(By James Graff)
The yardstick by which the success of NATO's summit in the Latvian capital of Riga would be measured was always going to be Afghanistan. By engaging 32,000 troops there — its first full-scale military action outside of Europe — against a now resurgent Taliban, the Western alliance had posed itself a cruel test of solidarity in one of the world's most historically ungovernable patches. Last week it effectively failed the test.
Zdroj: Time (USA)

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03.12. 2006
Nato braucht für die Zukunft ein tragfähiges Konzept
(By Hans-Dietrich Genscher)
Dieses politische Konzept muss beantworten, was die künftige Aufgabenstellung der Nato ist, damit im Einzelfall entschieden werden kann. Die Reihenfolge Militäreinsatz und anschließend der Versuch der politischen und humanitären Schadensbegrenzung ist falsch. Der militärische Einsatz kann nur als letzte Alternative erwogen werden.
Zdroj: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Germany)

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20.11. 2006
Russia, NATO and convenience
(By Viktor Litovkin)
Relations between the two are a marriage of convenience, where husband and wife live together, often socialize with others as a couple, and show every sign of respect for each other. At the same time, they sleep in different rooms, and have separate household and personal expenses. Each side is primarily pursuing its own interests, and although the couple is formally married, they cannot be called a real family. Needless to say, every metaphor has its drawbacks.
Zdroj: United Press International (USA)

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08.11. 2006
Azerbaijan between East and West
(By Dzheikhun Nadzhafov)
The current balancing act between Moscow and NATO suits the Azerbaijani elite, because it offers them a chance to obtain support from both sides. Moreover, a vague foreign policy allows the government to avoid "cumbersome commitments."
Zdroj: RIA Novosti (Russia)

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02.11. 2006
Countering Afghanistan’s Insurgency: No Quick Fixes
(By International Crisis Group)
There is nothing inevitable about failure in Afghanistan. However, without rethinking policies, there is equally nothing inevitable about success. (...) Recommandations to NATO: Meet the force requirements of the ISAF Operational Plan by sending additional troops and equipment urgently to Afghanistan as requested by the NATO Secretary General and remove national caveats that impede interoperability.
Zdroj: International Crisis Group (Belgie)

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26.10. 2006
Is NATO losing the real battle in Afghanistan?
(By Rachel Morarjee)
This week's deadly civilian bombing has further eroded the support of locals, who want to see less guns and more butter from the international force.
Zdroj: Time (USA)

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15.10. 2006
Nato's toughest task yet outside Europe
(By Abdullah Al Madani)
Afghanistan is bordered by countries with regimes or influential forces that have no interest in seeing Nato achieving any success there. As a result, they have covertly been providing the Taliban with logistic and other assistance, including access to recruit foreign extremists. It was not surprising, therefore, to know that the Taliban currently has more than 12,000 men under arms.
Zdroj: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)

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October 2006
Global NATO
(By Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier)
The advent of a new global politics after the Cold War has led NATO to expand its geographic reach and the range of its operations. Now, NATO must extend its membership to any democratic state that can help it fulfill its new responsibilities. Only a truly global alliance can address the global challenges of the day.
Zdroj: Foreign Affairs (USA)

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10.10.2006
Mutually Assured Disruption
(By David Frum)
Invite Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to join NATO — and even invite Taiwan to send observers to NATO meetings. (...) Perhaps North Korea and China imagine that the nuclear test has tilted the strategic balance in the Pacific in their favors. Now would be a good time to disabuse each of them of any such illusion. We need a tighter and stronger security arrangement in the Pacific region, one from which rogue states and those who support them are pointedly excluded. The NATO allies have agreed to expand the organization well beyond Western Europe; now we need to persuade them to make it global.
Zdroj: New York Times (USA)

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04.10.2006
EU and NATO bound in a perilous rivalry
(By Judy Dempsey)
The European Union and NATO have much in common, sharing members and pursuing similar goals. But instead of cooperating on defense, analysts say, the two organizations are engaged in a bitter competition that is damaging the credibility and effectiveness of both.
Zdroj: International Herald Tribune (France)

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