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WASHINGTON — If you’ve not been brought up in the tribal politics of the UK, it might not have seemed so shocking when Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed Conservative former PM Lady Thatcher to Downing Street earlier this month. But Thatcher remains the ideological nemesis of Brown’s Labour Party: many … Continue Reading…
WASHINGTON — Perhaps the crucial institutional question in the transatlantic relationship has concerned the roles of the European Union and NATO in providing for European security. How much of the transatlantic relationship should be managed through the U.S.–EU prism, how much through NATO, and how much on a bilateral or … Continue Reading…
BRATISLAVA — Transatlantic Trends 2007 has once again held up a mirror to the views of the citizens of the United States and 12 European countries on a wide range of global issues. Many comparative views are possible, but I am highlighting just two of them: … Continue Reading…
WASHINGTON — The news from Afghanistan on the counter-narcotics front is bad. Opium production from Afghanistan’s 408,000 acres of poppy rose almost 50% in 2006, contributing to global heroin production that set a new record high of 606 metric tons in 2006. The effort to stop the growing and production … Continue Reading…
ISTANBUL — This year’s Transatlantic Trends survey contains some striking data on Turkey. Conversations about the findings here in Turkey suggest several key points.
First, over the last year, the survey shows Turks becoming markedly cooler toward the world. The trend is most striking in attitudes … Continue Reading…
PARIS — Echoing debates of the mid-90’s, the issue of France’s comeback into NATO’s integrated military structures (left in 1966) seems to be officially on the table again. We will have to wait for the French White Paper on defence to be issued few months from now to get a … Continue Reading…
BRUSSELS — The 2007 Transatlantic Trends report confirms a couple of the trends that have been worrying policymakers in Beijing of late. The gradual cooling of European ardour for China since the honeymoon days of 2004 continues. Then polling “warmth” levels (on a 100-degree scale) across … Continue Reading…
WASHINGTON — Americans should pay close attention to the news from Turkey. The August 28 election of a new president, which has provoked strong opposition from the powerful Turkish military, is a test of Turkey’s democracy. The visit of Turkey’s energy minister to Iran earlier in August to sign energy … Continue Reading…
WASHINGTON — Arvind Subramanian’s recent WSJ op-ed “A Farewell to Alms” is one in a series of articles that lately has helped to elevate the visibility of the aid effectiveness debate. Subramanian and Raghuram Rajan’s research shows that aid has adverse effects on … Continue Reading…
PARIS — Although there is some consistency in French answers to the Transatlantic Trends questionnaire compared to 2006, the French distinguish themselves on two major issues.
The first one is Turkey: 49% of French respondents say that Turkey’s accession to the European Union … Continue Reading…