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Stephanie von Hayek: Although the Lisbon Treaty is a step forward for a Europe of the citizens, the Irish said no. And it is understandable they did. There is a lack of transparency and political dialogue within the EU which needs to be filled in by politicians on all levels.
The
Lisbon Treaty is clearly a step forward for a Europe
of the citizens. The subsidiarity principle will give national and regional
parliaments a say in European decision-making, the citizenship initiative will
empower citizens, budgetary power will democratize the European Parliament. The
Treaty of Lisbon is much more democratic than its previous treaties. Still the
Irish do not want it, and put up for referendum in other European countries, it
would ...More
Hall Gardner: NATO’s Bucharest Summit in April 2008 did not fully address the question of how to create a viable system of security for the volatile region of eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. As eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus are all riddled with secessionist and irredentist movements since Soviet collapse, it will require concerted US, EU, and Russian attention if a major crisis is to be averted.
In many ways, despite the Summit’s decision to postpone discussion of full NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, the uncoordinated NATO and EU enlargement into former Soviet strategic-economic space has aggravated relations with Russia and its major allies in the region, Belarus and Serbia; NATO-EU enlargement has also complicated Russian-Ukrainian relations. While Belarus has sought union with Moscow, Ukraine has sought ...More
Dawid Sebastian Bunikowski: The Treaty on a Constitution for Europe in a version presented by d’Estaing is not only a result of a legal and institutional aspect of deeper European integration but also a result of an axiological compromise.
After the Second World War, the process of economic integration, development of peace and wide social-economic integration between states and societies of European Communities have brought the need for seeking a common foundation of the European axiology.
If Europe wants to be the main and real actor in the world politics, it is necessary to understand what is the foundation of our culture and what role in the world Europe wants ...More
Sonja Davidovic: Instead of continuously debating, negotiating and making plans for reconfiguration, the international community should help the Serbian and Kosovar governments find ways to strengthen cross-border trade and regional business activities.
Following Kosovo's declaration of independence in February of this year, the country's new constitution came into force on June 15, 2008. Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu lauded the "historic" launching of the document. Yet the realities on the ground reveal the country faces considerable challenges.
The starting point is a seemingly irreconcilable division between the Albanian and Serbian population in Kosovo. The two communities exist in separate ...More
Daniel Möckli: Switzerland pursues an ambitious Middle East policy that differs from US and EU polices in major ways. This has given rise to controversies lately. There are good reasons for the Swiss to pursue a conflict resolution strategy based on mediation and dialog with Iran and militant Islamist organization
From the Editorial Team: On July 5th, Berlin celebrates Independence Day and the return of the American Embassy to the famous Pariser Platz with the grand Amerikafest 2008. This is your chance to meet the Atlantic Community editorial team face to face and find out more about our commitment to transatlantic exchange!
This year's Fourth of July in Berlin will be marked by the opening of the new US Embassy to Germany. After nearly a century of tormented history, the significance of the new building at the heart of the city at the Brandenburg Gate - a location that was chosen unde
r Roosevelt in 1930 - can hardly be overstated.
According to the the United States Diplomatic Mission to Germany "the decision of the State Department to return to the ...More
From the Editorial Team: The 2008 RIAS New Media Prize was awarded to Dr. Johannes Bohnen and Jan-Friedrich Kallmorgen for publishing the online think tank atlantic-community.org.
Founded just over a year ago, atlantic-community.org has already won its first international prize. The RIAS Berlin Commission awarded the New Media Prize to the publishers of the Atlantic Community, and praised it as a "platform for convening transatlantic exchange, possible only with the availability of the internet."
The RIAS Berlin Commission rewards "radio, TV and internet productions which made special contributions to the mutual ...More
Peter H. Schuck: Americans’ belief in the value of diversity is complicated by a recent study. Is law the answer? Perhaps, but only to a limited extent. The US government must find ways to encourage interaction and exchange, thereby generating social capital, rather than mandating forced diversity.
Religious diversity in America has
resulted in neighborhood suspicions, a decrease in civil society, and more time
spent in front of the television. Put into a historical context, diversity has been the
cause of endless bloodshed, political dissolution and regional instability for
centuries on end. Why is it that Americans have felt to be the exception to
this historical paradigm? A generation ago, "contact theorists" posited that
increasing ...More
Heinrich Bonnenberg: To Russia, its current western border is a border that stands for loss and dishonor. This border is an open, bleeding wound on the Russian body. The security pact that the Russian president recently presented in Berlin could be helpful in overcoming historical grievances and bringing Western Europe and Russia closer together.
Russia's western border of today is almost identical to the western border of the muscovite Empire, at the beginning of the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, known as "the gentlest", and the father of Peter the Great, in 1645. From 1645 to 1949, the Tsars and Stalin acquired great areas of land as provinces, autonomous republics and satellites for Russia. This took place over 300 years. The catastrophe for Moscow is that all the ...More
Ethan Christian Arrow: The rapid growth of India and China is reshaping the present international order. Representatives of these nations elucidate their intention to replicate the West’s wealth without replacing its established international order. Following such a path, without first securing democratic freedoms and institutions, will however, prove problematic.
In another
round of Harvard University's CES Berlin Dialogues, the recent economic rise of
China and India was further examined by a line-up of panelists engaged in the
debate on the "new ‘New World Order'". Setting the event's overall tone,
Professor Yu Bin, a Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute of American
Studies, accused the West of harboring only anxiety, alarm, and animosity with
respect to the rise ...More
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