WASHINGTON—At first glance, the recent news cycle provides plenty of reasons for skeptics of the Arab Spring to feel vindicated. The killing of Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi following his capture, and the gruesome display of his body at a meat market in Misrata, expose a disturbing side of a movement that many had been inclined [...]

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ROME — According to the newly-released Transatlantic Trends survey, Italy is the European country with the strongest perception of a deterioration of the transatlantic relationship over the last year.  Nevertheless, Italians still largely approve (79%) of U.S. President Barack Obama’s handling of international affairs and believe in greater numbers than in past years that NATO [...]

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WASHINGTON—Despite economic worries and domestic political preoccupations, perceptions in the United States and Europe of each other appear to be in better shape now than they were during the presidency of George W. Bush. Americans and Europeans have generally favorable opinions of one another and majorities on both continents believe they share enough common values [...]

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ISTANBUL — When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Istanbul over the weekend for the fourth meeting of the Libya Contact Group and bilateral meetings with her hosts, she would have sensed the confidence of a new regional power.  Turkey today boasts one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and perhaps the [...]

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By Alina Inayeh BUCHAREST — Nearly four months after a young Tunisian fruit seller burned himself alive out of despair over the corruption of his country and sparked a popular revolt against autocracy that swept the region, thunderstruck leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are finding their voice again. Last week, U.S. President Barack [...]

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ROME — The world was not prepared for the turmoil that followed when citizens in Arab countries launched an unprecedented uprising for freedom and democracy. At the beginning, many countries acted in an improvised and uncoordinated way.  Later on, a coalition led the reaction against Ghaddafi’s excesses in Libya with the UN. The United States, [...]

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On March 28th, President Obama addressed the American public to explain Operation Odyssey Dawn—the ongoing military campaign in Libya—and shed some light on what pundits have termed the “Obama Doctrine.” But the speech was at times ambiguous and confusing: calling for the ouster of Moammar Gaddafi but stating that this was not the objective of [...]

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TEL AVIV — The masses that went to the streets in Tunisia, Egypt, the Gulf states, and Jordan confronted their regimes in the name of the values that Europe wanted these regimes to adopt. Beginning in 1995, when the European Union initiated the Barcelona Process, Europe has worked to establish a zone of European influence [...]

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Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s foreign minister, was jubilant last October. His country was just elected to join the world’s most exclusive club for the next two years as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and on the first ballot to boot — clearly an expression of the reputation and confidence, post-war Germany earned over [...]

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WASHINGTON — As the debate intensifies on the sustainability of the intervention in Libya as a transatlantic effort, there is a country that should feel a particular responsibility for the success of the mission and use all its resources to influence the outcome — Italy. As Libya’s largest European trading partner, Italy has the most [...]

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