Category Europe

Civil Society, Economics, Europe, Governance & Law, North America, Policy & Politics

Democracies Can Hit the Pause Button

March 26, 2012

Democracies on both sides of the Atlantic are facing challenges -- causing chatter amongst pundits about decline or dissolution.

Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, Policy & Politics

Making Biography in Foreign Policy: Elections 2012

March 25, 2012

This year’s slew of elections and other leadership selection processes will see new heads of state in many capitals around the world. Leadership matters—as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “there is properly no history, only biography….” Presidential elections have already…

Europe, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

The Big Chill: Priorities & Realities for a Modern NATO

February 23, 2012

The final installment of a three-part series on NATO by Nic Wondra. See the first and second articles. A different NATO might restore a solidarity lost with the invasion of Iraq. The alliance’s moral credibility and the credible threat of hard power deployment are…

Asia Pacific, Civil Society, Europe, Governance & Law, Security & Conflict

Breaking News: Soviet Union Disintegrates

February 2, 2012

Part 2 of 3 in a series on NATO by Nic Wondra It just has not sunk in yet. Somehow, The US’s (and therefore NATO’s) largest concern is the Russian Federation. The upcoming elections will bring a lot of issues…

Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, Policy & Politics, Security & Conflict

NATO on the Rocks? Stirred, Not Shaken

February 2, 2012

The first in a three part series by Nic Wondra on NATO and its future role in security