In der polnischen Gazeta Wyborcza haben Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa und andere zentral- und osteuropäische Gesinnungs-genossen am 17. Juli einen Offenen Brief an Barack Obama gerichtet. In dem Aufruf warnen sie die USA davor, sich aus der osteuropäischen Region zurückzuziehen; sie klagen, die Region sei für die USA an den Rand der Aufmerksamkeit gerückt; der [...]
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NATO – post mortem
Posted in NATO on Jan 18th, 2007
NATO as an alliance has lost its raison-d’être. This is not due to a lack of common security threats NATO allies are facing but to a striking lack of common threat perception, the lack of a stable consensus on how to deal with threats if at all accepted as common and, finally, appalling buck passing [...]
NATO: Out of business while out of area
Posted in NATO on Nov 28th, 2006
In the nineties Senator Richard Lugar made his seminal statement about NATO going either out of area or out of business. Lugar was totally right – then. NATO had to accept new commitments beyond its territory, proliferate stability, enforce peace and enable civic actors to engage in post-conflict peace building were it to sustain its [...]