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Marek Swierczynski: Brazil and Russia want to build fighter jets and rockets under the new agreement signed last week. The potential "superpower of the South" may be on its way out of the western camp and can speed up the creation of the world's new order. Bad news.
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Amarjyoti Acharya: Complex issues with easy priced-solutions do appeal and do have a rationality that is also innocent. Yet, why does someone born and brought up in Britain go to fight a ‘jehadi' war at Basra? That is the primary question that needs to be understood and answered adequately.
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Hans-Ulrich Klose: Mistakes have been made on both the Russian and the Western sides. Russia should now be approached as an equal rather than looked down upon or scolded for non-democratic ways.
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Andreas Umland: Don’t overestimate Berlin’s statements concerning Russian interests in the former USSR
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Lior Petek: Former US President Jimmy Carter on his current Middle East tour justified his controversial talks with Hamas by arguing that it cannot be ignored. Unfortunately, Carter does not see that there is nothing to talk about with Hamas.
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier: For the past 60 years the transatlantic relationship has been the world's transformative partnership. America's relationship with Europe - more than with any other part of the world - enables both of us to achieve goals that neither of us could achieve alone.
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Marek Swierczynski: The Lisbon Treaty opens a new path for the European Security and Defense Policy. After Europe failed to create either a relevant European defense capability or a common security strategy, it favors a collective defense that may ultimately threaten NATO.
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Ryan R. Miller: When major powers meet in Shanghai on April 16th to discuss Iran's nuclear program, Washington should work with European capitals and leave the door open to greater EU-Iranian energy trade as a potential reward for Iranian good behavior. For post-communist Central Europe, disproportionately exposed to Russia's energy monopoly, such a strategy could kill two birds with one stone.
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Atlantic Community SURVEY: 23 European and US policy analysts and our members express stronger support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations than witnessed at the Bucharest Summit. Advocacy for fast NATO enlargement correlates with geographic proximity to Russia.
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Andreas Goldthau: The extent to which Russia’s resources are sustaining the country’s growth and influencing its foreign policy tends to be overstated. Having to adapt to domestic and geopolitical circumstances, and the rules of the global market considerably restricts the Kremlin’s room for maneuver.
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