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Editorial Team: Turkey tops the agenda at atlantic-community.org for the next week as fears of a shift away from the West become more widespread. We invite our members to reflect on and debate Ankara's ‘alleged’ shift and consider the importance of Turkey as a regional player to the US and Europe.
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Ghassan Dahhan: Europe should be alerted by Turkey's foreign policy shift and start treating Turkey as a respected ally, by offering Turkey real EU membership prospects. Turkey is of major strategic importance to Europe and it is up to the politicians of EU member states to alter public opinion.
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Joshua Posaner: Dmitri Medvedev's second state of the nation address gave observers an indication of the complex relationship at the top of Russian politics. His different approach may appear to be shifting Russia away from 'Putinism' and towards reform, but this is all just smoke and mirrors.
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Marie Lall: With Pakistan having entered its most violent chapter in its history as an independent state, it might already be too late to reverse Islamic militancy and terror. The West can only help with a cash injection in the economy, making sure that the money reaches ordinary Pakistanis rather than the military, government officials or Western consultants.
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Caroline Hammargren: Former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga's candidacy should be carefully considered at the summit being held tomorrow to decide on the new EU top appointments, as her international and multilingual background make her an appropriate choice for President of the European Council.
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Editorial Team: One year into a four-year term is too early to judge whether Mr. Obama is living up to his promises, especially in the American system of government. Mr. Obama will need to make major progress on health reform, and find allies across the Atlantic to become a successful president.
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Greg Randolph Lawson: Obama needs to maintain military flexibility by repositioning its "Af-Pak" policy. The US can encourage lasting stability in the region, and indeed protect its own strategic sustainability, by rethinking its nation building efforts and allowing regional actors to grow into a more effective anti-Taliban force.
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Editorial Team : Following the gathering of world leaders at the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall yesterday, we would like to invite our members to discuss the content of their speeches. Do these leaders have the political capital, resources and willingness to live up to their promises?
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L. Michel & R. Hunter: To succeed in Afghanistan, the US needs its allies' support. Therefore the US needs to start listening to those nations sharing the risks and incorporate their input into its new game plan.
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Josef Braml: The US will no longer give Germany a free-pass on sharing "the burden of global responsibility." As skepticism of American foreign commitments broadens at home, and with Chancellor Merkel’s address before a joint session of Congress, Germany is no longer in a position to drag its heels on issues that the US finds most important. Furthermore, if Germany hopes to have any future sway in US politics, fulfilling expectations now is necessary.
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