U.S. Senator Bob Graham: "Can we easily extend our defense umbrella to the country that is seeking admission"?
written by: Corneliu Pivariu
Aug 25, 2010

- Interview with U.S.Senator Bob Graham realized by Corneliu Pivariu, President and CEO of Geostrategic Pulse -

Russian Espionage Targeting New NATO Members
written by: Gregory Feifer
Aug 19, 2010

The three Czech generals make an impressive roster: the head of the president's military office, the country's NATO representative in Europe, and a deputy head of the chief of staff. Last week, a Czech newspaper reported they stepped down after a Russian spy made contact with their offices in the ...more

EU and Teheran: A Collision in Slow Motion
written by: Jonathan Spyer
Aug 10, 2010

This week, the European Union approved sanctions of unprecedented severity against Iran, because of its refusal to desist from enriching uranium. The EU decision follows the recent fourth UN Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran, and the subsequent additional package of measures approved ...more

Will Germany Continue to Prop up Iran's Financial Terror Entities?
written by: Benjamin Weinthal
Aug 06, 2010

Angela Merkel has a choice.

The European Union is slated this week to wrap up a new round of sanctions. Their ...more

Transatlantic Relations After the Lisbon Treaty
AICGS
Aug 02, 2010

In Issue Brief 37, "Transatlantic Relations After the Lisbon Treaty: Ready for Action, or More Process?" AICGS Research Program/ Publications Coordinator Jessica Riester considers the European Union's Lisbon Treaty with regard to the EU, the U.S., and Germany within the context of a more broadly ...more

Baltic MEPs: The US non-recognition policy was our only source of hope
Jul 23, 2010

At the intiative of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithanian delegations in the EPP group, 20 Baltic MEPs from five political groups signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, expressing their appreciation for US policies that never recognized the 1940 annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ...more

US Mediation Key to Solving Macedonia Name Dispute
written by: Darko Duridanski
Jul 21, 2010

Kosovo's dispute with Serbia and Macedonia's with Greece need to be solved in tandem - and both require international mediation, says Aleksandar Matovski, former adviser to Macedonia's former prime minister, now at Cornell University.

Q: As the International Court of Justice prepares ...more

Considerations about the Chinese Intelligence Services (II)
written by: Octavian Dumitrescu
Jul 16, 2010

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is the second Chinese intelligence service. It is considered to be a national security organization that supervises all provincial and local police departments. Since it ...more

Iran moves radar to Syria: US official
Jul 07, 2010

Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early-warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran's nuclear sites, a US defense official said on Friday.

The radar transfer was first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday and prompted the State Department ...more

A new military alliance at the Black Sea?
written by: Corneliu Pivariu
Jul 07, 2010

At the end of June this year, numerous media presented information on the likelihood that a new military alliance appears at the Black Sea, by means of a military treaty between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, under the name of Black Sea Defense Treaty. This treaty is expected ...more

Italy's capabilities to fight oil desasters
written by: Piero Laporta
Jul 02, 2010

A senator from the Italian parliamentary opposition, Paolo Giaretta, really surprised Stefania Prestigiacomo, Italian Minister for the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea, with a question relative to the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Giarretta surprised Defense Minister Ignazio ...more

European security strategy
Interview with Alvaro de Vasconcelos, Director- European Union Institute for Strategic Studies (EUISS)
written by: Corneliu Pivariu
Jul 02, 2010

Geostrategic Pulse (GP): In the context of the new security challenges the contemporary world is facing at the beginning of the second decade of the third millennium - the global campaign against terrorism, the shock of globalization, active or frozen conflicts in the closer or farther ...more

Lorenzo Vidino: "Terror Threat from young Muslims born in Europe ?"
written by: Ioannis Michaletos
Jun 21, 2010

- Exclusive interview with Lorenzo Vidino, the renowned Italian expert on Islam, international terrorism and European counter-strategies, conducted by Ioannis Michaletos, WSN Editor for South East Europe and South-eastern Office Co-ordinator -

Obama's Bluff Alienated Brazil and Turkey
written by: Judith Apter Klinghoffer
Jun 23, 2010

Obama's foreign policy failures are obvious to all. Robert Gates absurdly blames the EU for the loss of Turkey. James Rubin uses ...more

The Western Balkans in 2010: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
written by: Hannes Swoboda
Jun 14, 2010

The International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. Hannes Swoboda, Member of the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ...more

Germans to the front in Europe
written by: David Marsh
Jun 10, 2010

Barack Obama, the US president, has been stepping up trans-Atlantic telephone diplomacy to encourage Germany, France and Spain to take action to limit worldwide fall-out of the European debt crisis.

However, Obama's fears that the euro mess could lead to a refreezing of ...more

Killing Justice in Russia
written by: Vaclav Havel
Jun 09, 2010

PRAGUE - The death of Eduard Chuvashov, a judge killed in cold blood on April 12 in Moscow, is another in a long and growing list of murders perpetrated on those in Russia who try to seek justice for the victims of crimes - an essential task for the future development of the Russian society.

Within ...more

Europe faces its crucial dilemma – between solidarity and chaos
written by: David Marsh
Jun 04, 2010

After the birth of the euro in 1999, Wim Duisenberg, the first president of the European Central Bank, spent too much time playing golf in his first years in office -- and didn't do enough to force discipline on errant members of the single currency.

That's the plausible, yet somewhat unforgiving, ...more

Does Iran really want Nuclear Weapons?
written by: Jožef Kunic
May 28, 2010

Despite the warnings of the international community, Iran does not show any intentions to give up the uranium enrichment programme arguing that it is a civil programme not intended for the weapon development. However, the Western politicians do not believe those statements and perceive Iran's nuclear programme as a threat for the region and the Western world with global implications.

The Euro's lost promise
written by: David Marsh
May 20, 2010

The dream of monetary union across Europe has turned into a nightmare. Led by France and Germany, European countries have decided to spend colossal sums of taxpayers' money they cannot afford to heal mounting internal disparities they cannot conceal to shore up an edifice many believe cannot stand. ...more

The Foreign Policy of the European Union and the Black Sea Region
written by: Corneliu Pivariu
May 17, 2010

The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) together with the prestigious Harvard University through the Black Sea Security Program of the JFK School of Government organized the seminar "The Foreign Policy of the European Union and the Black Sea Region" in mid-April in Paris.

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New Wind in Finland's Foreign Policy - Back to Realism
written by: Jukka Aminoff
May 11, 2010

Finland has always been a country with a sense of cold realism when it comes to foreign and security policy. Balanced neutrality has been, and still is, its keyword. Maintaining good relations with all countries has always been a sensible policy for small countries - and especially so for Finland.

Finland ...more

The profound causes of Russia's hostility towards the Eastern Partnership
written by: Dr. Simion Costea
May 06, 2010

The leaders in Moscow and the Russian media insistently affirm that the Eastern Partnership and the European Neighbourhood Policy are an expression of the Europeans' interest in increasing the ...more

The coming population exodus from the Balkans to the EU
written by: Ioannis Michaletos
Apr 23, 2010

The EU in the end of 2009 took the decision of liberalizing the regime concerning visas by the citizens from several Western Balkan countries. It is also, widely discussed in Brussels, that after Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and Fyrom, Bosnia will also have a visa-free regime by mid-2010, followed ...more

Serbia and Republika Srpska, with joined forces against Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mar 23, 2010

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses events in the Middle East and the Balkans. IFIMES has prepared an analysis of the current events related to the arrest of the former member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991-1996) Ejup Ganic in London and the impact of the arrest on the situation in the West Balkan region.

Southeastern Europe's Chinese endeavors
written by: Ioannis Michaletos
Mar 18, 2010

Over the past two years, the economic crisis has badly affected most states in the world and has caused quite a few financial hurdles for economies in transition, such as the ones in Southeastern Europe.

In parallel, a notable development that is being formatted is the importation of Chinese ...more

Turkey and its foreign policy in the time of Gul - Erdogan - Davutoglu
written by: Corneliu Pivariu
Mar 17, 2010

"In 2023, when the country will celebrate 100 years since the creation of the modern Turkish state, I see Turkey as a full EU member, after having fulfilled all the membership requests, living in peace with its neighbors, integrated with the ...more

Alliance Asymmetries
written by: Jackson Janes
Mar 16, 2010

A line in a recent speech by Defense Secretary Robert Gates set off a number of alarm bells in Europe about rising friction in the transatlantic relationship. Expressing concern about what he sees as increasing aversion to the uses and risks of military force among European publics, Gates warned about the danger of miscalculations based on perceived weakness as well as the problem of securing sufficient resources and capabilities to meet threats and challenges in the future. He referred to this problem as the "demilitarization of Europe."