Why the Absence of Climate Change at the G8 Summit is No Big Deal
BRUSSELS—The G8 Summit agenda is as good a snapshot as any of the preoccupations of the global elite. Over the past few years, the summits offered opportunities for the leaders of world’s largest...
View ArticleObama’s Berlin Speech Delivered the Right Message
WASHINGTON—Fifty years after John F. Kennedy made his iconic Berlin speech — with its famous line of “Ich bin ein Berliner” — the parallels to the one delivered by his successor Barack Obama last week...
View ArticleBulgarians Take to the Streets
SOFIA—The peaceful, anti-establishment protests taking place in Bulgaria have been overshadowed by the recent radical upheavals in Cairo, Istanbul, and Sao Paulo. But whereas the new Egyptian,...
View ArticleHow Obama Can Convince a Skeptical American Public on Syria
Iraq is the new Vietnam. It is the specter that now hangs over any discussion of U.S. military intervention, the cautionary tale repeated whenever an American president appears to be contemplating...
View ArticleThe United States Shuts Down Its Diplomacy
On October 1, the start of the United States’ new fiscal year, thousands of federal government workers awoke to the sad realization that they would not be going to work. Their paychecks and their...
View ArticleObama’s Brussels Agenda: Verify but Trust
BRUSSELS—On March 26, U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Brussels for the first time since taking office. For years, the transatlantic discourse has been shaped by debate over the so-called U.S....
View ArticleWhen Allies Are Stuck Between a Time of Commemoration and a World in Transition
BRUSSELS—When your transatlantic flight starts descending over Normandy a week away from the 70th anniversary of D-Day, with World War II veterans on board, and your pilot tells you to look out the...
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