august 8, 2011

Honoring the Mindset of A Generation: In Memory of Ronald Asmus ^Răspunde

by Octavian Manea • English content, Interviuri, Octavian Manea, Posts by author • Tags: Barack Obama, Central and Eastern Europe, EU, euro-atlantic relations, European Security, international security, NATO, Obama administration, Poland, Ronald Asmus, Russia, SACEUR, trans-Atlantic relations

Richard C. Hollbrooke (1941-2010) și Ronald D. Asmus (1957-2011)

Ronald Asmus was definitely, as Ivan Krastev highlighted in an article for opendemocracy.com, part of a generation “that emerged on the stage in the last days of the Cold War, it was baptized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, inspired by the thinking of dissidents and it never lost its belief in the transformative nature of democracy. It was a generation shaped by the end of the Cold War, the dilemmas of the Balkan wars and the success of the enlargement policy. It is a generation that came to importance at the moment when American power was at its height and American leadership was taken for granted”.

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august 15, 2007

The Liberal Internationalist agenda (II) ^Răspunde

by Octavian Manea • Analysis, English content, International Affairs, Octavian Manea, Posts by author, Theoria • Tags: 9/11, doctrine of integration, euro-atlantic relations, European Union, liberal internationalism, NATO, NRF, Tony Blair, US foreign policy

In its basic sense the doctrine of integration argues for a global consensus or a global compact that will define the threats and the challenges of the new era and, very important, will define new rules for the management of the international system.

First the new rules regulating the post 9/11 international system should be developed around new core concepts-conditional sovereignty, responsibility to protect, responsibility to prevent, that should become the pillars of a new doctrine of international community responsibility (along the directions developed in the so-called Blair Doctrine articulated in the 22nd April 1999 speech).

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aprilie 29, 2007

Ballistic Missile Defense: A New Divisive Issue between Russia and NATO ^Răspunde

by George Visan • Analysis, English content, George Visan, International Affairs, Posts by author • Tags: Ballistic Missile Defense, Cold War, euro-atlantic relations, NATO, Russia, Soviet Union, US foreign policy

A new divisive issue between Russia and NATO has come to the fore: the deployment and development of ballistic missile defenses in Europe by the United States in Central Europe.

The debate regarding missile defense is not new. It dates back to the Cold War when the United States used the Strategic Defense Initiative, colloquially known as Star Wars to bankrupt the Soviet Union. Today however ballistic defenses have returned as an issue of international politics when the United States decided to retreat from ABM treaty signed in 1972 and develop this type of strategic defense in order to protect itself from countries like Iran and North Korea – the infamous “rogue states” from the “axis of evil”.

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