Western Europe - Carnegie Endowment

“Fixing Broken Windows”: Security Sector Reform in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen

Yezid Sayigh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The bulk of development aid in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen has consisted of military training and equipment, which does nothing to ensure that security forces answer to legitimate civilian leaders.

NATO and Russia: Partnership or Peril?

Dmitri Trenin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The West and Russia need to embark on a long, tortuous, and potentially rocky path toward creating a security community in Europe that would include both NATO members and nonmembers.

Russia Reborn

Dmitri Trenin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The current Russian model—growth without development, capitalism without democracy, and great-power policies without international appeal—cannot hold forever. Russia's foreign policy requires a new strategy and new policy instruments and mechanisms to implement it.

So Far Purely Economic, G20 Could One Day Cover Security Too

Dmitri Trenin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The key to success in the security field is not a combination of individual players like the G20, but rather sustainable joint leadership working together in tailor-made coalitions.

UN Nuclear Talks

James M. Acton — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The passage of a UN Security Council resolution on nonproliferation and disarmament is the first evidence that the Obama administration's strategy of achieving an eventual "world without nuclear weapons" is paying off.

Moving beyond strained relations (II)

Dmitri Trenin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000

When Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary-general, addresses an audience at Carnegie Europe on Friday, 18th September, he will speak about the possibility of a new dialogue between two former foes – NATO and Russia. Dmitri Trenin suggests that these discussions could initially take place through the NATO-Russia Council of 2002, but in time, that they might spawn a new framework altogether.

Deterring Safeguards Violations

James M. Acton — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000

Responding to non-compliance is a promising area for progress at the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, because it imposes no additional burden on states that are playing by the rules.

France and Nuclear Abolition: The Odd Country Out?

Bruno Tertrais — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000

France is closer in agreement with other nuclear-weapon states in moving towards nuclear abolition than some might think -- but not without seeing other nuclear powers fulfill their end of the bargain.

Can Afghans Still Count on the EU?

Fabrice Pothier, Daniel Korski — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:00:00 +0000

The EU should commit itself to a ‘civilian surge', but with Afghan rather than European civilians.

Crossing the Aisle in Paris and Washington

Fabrice Pothier — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Both the U.S. and French Presidents, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, have brought key opposition figures into their administrations. As Fabrice Pothier argues, in both cases their policy influence has been minimal.