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Hollande signals return of France as complicated ally for West

vydáno 7.5.2012 v 11:02

Hollande, who made Nicolas Sarkozy a one-term president yesterday, has promised to speed France’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and questioned the return to NATO’s command structure engineered by Sarkozy.... celý článek

Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg (USA)

National sovereignty: NATO and the EU's fatal weakness

Vrcholní představitelé EU a NATO - Catherine Ashton a Anders Fogh Ramsussen (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 2.5.2012 v 11:01

Much and perhaps most of NATO and the EU's current travails can be traced to the same basic flaw: national sovereignty. Both organizations have elaborate consultative and rule-making structures. NATO has... celý článek

Daniel Goure, Lexington Institute (USA)

The economic impact of the NATO summit

Summit NATO v Chicagu 2012.
vydáno 3.5.2012 v 14:26

The recently released estimate by Chicago's host committee on the economic impact of the NATO summit here this month — $128 million — is as far away from reality as Brussels (NATO headquarters) is from... celý článek

Robert A. Baade & Allen R. Sanderson, Chicago Tribune (USA)

NATO arms sales to Russia: A need for clear thinking

NATO - Rusko.
vydáno 1.5.2012 v 10:34

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be confronting critical questions about its future at this month’s Chicago Summit. One of the important issues likely to be overlooked is NATO members’... celý článek

Stephen Blank, Center for European Policy Analysis (USA)

Gloomy forecast for Afghanistan's future

Afghánistán
vydáno 23.4.2012 v 10:58

The Taliban intends to destabilize the security situation in the country, shake the confidence of the Afghan government and the West and put them under its continuous military pressure. Its ultimate goal... celý článek

Wang Hui, China Daily (China)

Little action on common E.U. defense

O sdílení vojenských prostředků v rámci EU i NATO se dlouho mluví, ale méně již činí (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 16.4.2012 v 10:24

For many months, the European Union has been discussing how to combine and share defense resources in order to reduce duplication of military equipment and increase efficiencies. It would seem an ideal... celý článek

Judy Dempsey, The New York Times (USA)

Libya: Why NATO intervention in country is not a victory for responsibility to protect

Libyjci oslavují pád Kaddáfího režimu
vydáno 10.4.2012 v 15:27

Rather than a victory for Responsibility to protect ( R2P), the execution of NATO intervention in Libya may have re-validated a traditional criticism against humanitarian intervention as a mask for the... celý článek

Jide Martyns Okeke, AllAfrica (South Africa)

Obama and Nato should act before the Syria crisis spreads further

Sýrie (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 10.4.2012 v 15:22

It was done in Benghazi in response to a mere threat from Gaddafi. It may now have to be done in Syria, whatever Russia may say, if only because the slaughter there is for real, and all other options have... celý článek

Simon Tisdall, The Guardian (United Kingdom)

NATO nations must help restore order in Mali

Speciální jednotka malijské armády
vydáno 6.4.2012 v 15:14

France, which led the NATO intervention in Libya and employed its troops to defend democracy in Ivory Coast last year, appears ready to assist the possible intervention, at least logistically. Paris, as... celý článek

Editorial Board, The Washington Post (USA)

The implications of multipolarity for Central Europe’s security

Americký prezident Barack Obama
vydáno 5.4.2012 v 11:39

For years, Central Europeans have fretted that the United States might withdraw from the European security arena in order to focus on more pressing issues in other parts of the world. Over the last 12... celý článek

Clara M. O'Donnell, Brookings (USA)

Is NATO a big problem?

Centrála NATO v Bruselu
vydáno 3.4.2012 v 18:51

Rather than let the Russians have Berlin [during the Cold War], the United States and her allies organized an airlift, flying 200,000 sorties into West Berlin, provisioning the city. Our unified front... celý článek

Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times (USA)

After Nato what?

Shromáždění místních vůdců v Afghánistánu (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 3.4.2012 v 18:40

Afghanistan cannot live hand-to-mouth at the mercy of foreign donors. This admonition will sound familiar to those who followed Afghanistan's failed-state troubles in the 1990s. Karzai's early, ambitious... celý článek

Paula Newberg, Khaleej Times (UAE)

NATO’s duty

Letoun F-16 norského letectva startuje k misi nad Libyí
vydáno 29.3.2012 v 19:09

Implausibly, NATO insists it knows of no "confirmed" civilian casualties during its entire seven-month Libya bombing campaign. "Confirmed," as our colleague C. J. Chivers pointed out in Sunday's Times,... celý článek

Editorial, The New York Times (USA)

Willing or waning? NATO’s role in an age of coalitions

Severoatlantická aliance. Ilustrační foto.
vydáno 29.3.2012 v 16:32

Twenty years after the great debate over NATO’s future at the end of the Cold War, we appear to have come full circle—“back to the future,” in John Mearsheimer’s words. Its instrumental role in pacifying... celý článek

Karsten Jung, World Affairs (USA)

NATO Base in Russia 'Pragmatic Decision' – Analysts

NATO - Rusko.
vydáno 21.3.2012 v 16:18

Under a plan announced last week by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Moscow is preparing to allow NATO to use an airport in Ulyanovsk, the birthplace of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, to... celý článek

Maria Kuchma, RIA Novosti (Russia)

The good news in Afghanistan should come from President Obama

Setkání prezidenta Baracka Obamy s vojáky.
vydáno 21.3.2012 v 14:11

Mr. Obama must do more to build support in the United States for his policy. The president has given just a handful of speeches on Afghanistan during his first term, and his recent public comments have... celý článek

Editorial, The Washington Post (USA)

Our security and NATO

Generální tajemník NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen s tureckým premiérem Recepem
vydáno 21.3.2012 v 11:09

I know there are many in this country who are not fond of NATO and question Turkey’s membership in this organization. The German Marshall Fund’s annual Transatlantic Trends surveys continue to reveal considerable... celý článek

Suat Kiniklioglu, Today's Zaman (Turkey)

Why Syria won't get the Libya treatment from the West

Sýrie (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 19.3.2012 v 10:55

So, could it happen in Syria? Probably not, according to two reports out on Monday. Both suggest that the Western powers would face significantly bigger challenges in intervening against President Bashar... celý článek

Vivienne Walt, Time (USA)

NATO lessons from Libya mission one year on

NATO ukončuje operaci v Libyi.
vydáno 14.3.2012 v 10:41

For NATO, that leverage depends upon its members' ability to marshal the will and resources to intervene if necessary. In Libya, Europe finally had the will to lead, but it largely lacked the means and... celý článek

John Podesta & Ken Gude, The Moscow Times (Russia)

Turkey-Israel row a new headache for NATO?

Generální tajemník NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen s tureckým prezidentem Abdullahem Gülem.
vydáno 5.3.2012 v 16:28

Turkey’s deeply strained ties with one-time ally Israel has found new venues for potential tension: NATO and the eastern Mediterranean. In mid-February, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived... celý článek

Ümit Enginsoy , Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey)

Turkey and NATO sixty years on

Generální tajemník NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen s tureckým premiérem Recepem
vydáno 20.2.2012 v 11:20

Turkey without NATO would have been prone to greater pressure becoming more fragile and NATO without Turkey would have been weaker, missing an essential piece of the jigsaw that provided security for the... celý článek

Süreyya Yiğit, Turkish Weekly (Turkey)

Revealing the obvious

Příslušníci afghánské policie.
vydáno 14.2.2012 v 18:53

Professing to tell a secret whose veracity, or lack thereof, is already known to people has an underlying and deliberate motive. The BBC recently said it had seen a ‘leaked’ NATO report showing what the... celý článek

Deepak Tripathi, Foreign Policy Journal (USA)

Why negotiate with the Taliban?

Členové afghánské Vysoké mírové rady (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 9.2.2012 v 19:16

The absolute majority of the Afghan people are against the Taliban and the domination of our country by militant extremism. They have wholeheartedly supported and participated in the democratic process,... celý článek

Amrullah Saleh, The Wall Street Journal (USA)

No Libya play for the West in Syria

Sýrie (ilustrační foto)
vydáno 8.2.2012 v 18:42

Perhaps in part because of the bad blood over Libya, the world body has reached no similar consensus over Syria. Rather, the opposite, with some of the harshest diplomatic language traded for years. To... celý článek

Tim Lister, CNN (USA)

A leaner NATO needs a tighter focus

Generální tajemník NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen a americký prezident Barack Obama
vydáno 3.2.2012 v 19:35

The real long-term risk to NATO is that gaps will appear in the European force structure that the United States won’t be able to fill, and that the alliance will be unable to act in a future crisis. That... celý článek

Hans Binnendijk, The New York Times (USA)

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