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Theodore Couloumbis, Bill Ahlstrom & Gary Weaver
Theodore Couloumbis is vice president of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy and professor emeritus at the University of Athens, Greece; Bill Ahlstrom is an executive at a US multinational; Gary Weaver is professor at American University’s School of International Service; these views are their own.Subscribe to Theodore Couloumbis, Bill Ahlstrom & Gary Weaver RSS Article Feed.
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- Iran: Radical, But Not Crazy - March 25, 2010
- Last month Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that Iran was turning into a “military dictatorship,” as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps...
- 'Dithering' May Be Good Policy - November 6, 2009
- Regardless of outcome, what does the Afghan strategy and policy review tell us about President Obama's approach to governing? We are used to seeing domestic policy...
- Obama's Foreign Policy Conundrum - October 9, 2009
- The Obama 'change' in American foreign policy emphasizes realism, engagement and negotiation; multilateralism, “smart power,” and collective, concerted...
- Ongoing Nuclear Dilemmas - July 28, 2009
- President Obama in speech after speech during his recent overseas visits has been hammering on the dual themes of arresting the proliferation of weapons of mass...
- Concerted Action on Global Problems - July 14, 2009
- In a recent interview with Der Spiegel, the German weekly asked Henry Kissinger whether he thought the world would soon enter an era without major wars or conflicts. His...
- Two Steps Forward, One Step Back in the Middle East - June 23, 2009
- Up until the June 12th election in Iran, most observers outside that country thought there was a good chance that former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi would unseat...
- Obama's Public Diplomacy in Egypt - May 26, 2009
- President Obama’s April visit to Turkey won strong praise for reaching out to the Muslim world. He clearly stated that the United States was not at war with Islam, and...
- NATO: Out of Area, Not Out of Business - April 29, 2009
- NATO has been called the most durable, long-lasting, and highly institutionalized alliance in history. Child of the Cold War, it was born in 1949 to tie Western Europe,...
- U.S.-Turkey Relations Vital for Middle East Peace - April 4, 2009
- President Barack Obama's planned trip to Turkey has nudged that country into public consciousness. It is for most Americans, an oddity: A relatively secular, relatively...
- Psychology of Abundance and Scarcity - March 17, 2009
- Since the Great Depression and World War II, the domestic policies of most West European countries have been based on a “psychology of scarcity”--- a belief that...
- The Paradox of Defense - March 4, 2009
- Thucydides understood the paradox of how defense could be considered aggressive more than 2400 years before the first nuclear explosion over Hiroshima.Most Greek...
- Changing Middle East Dynamics - February 16, 2009
- In just a few days, the Middle East dynamics have begun to shift. First, President Obama’s interview with al-Arabiya. Then Vice President Biden’s speech at the...
- Who's Advising This Prince? - February 6, 2009
- The recent emphasis on the “smart power” concepts developed by Harvard’s Joseph Nye has reminded us that from the times of Kautilya, Sun Tzu and Machiavelli,...
- Redefining the 'War on Terror' - January 19, 2009
- British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has done a great service by declaring in a January 15 column in The Guardian that "ultimately, the notion [of the "war on...
- Don't Waste This Worldwide Crisis - January 6, 2009
- Two decades ago, in 1989, communism collapsed in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union was so eroded that it dissolved two years later. Some hailed this as...
- Fighting Enemies of All Humanity - December 17, 2008
- Gary Weaver is a co-authorPirates, terrorists, distributors of weapons of mass destruction, tyrants who engage in genocide -- all are certainly what Elizabethan English...
- Untying the Middle East Gordian Knot - December 12, 2008
- Gary Weaver is a co-authorMovement toward peace in the Middle East is at a critical juncture.The seeming intent of the Obama Administration to reinvigorate negotiations...
- Obama's Approach to Governing - December 6, 2008
- Gary Weaver is a co-authorMuch has been made in the media about President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet nominees as a “team of rivals,” echoing Doris Kearns...
- US-EU: Mirror Images on Illegal Immigration - December 2, 2008
- Gary Weaver is a co-authorIllegal immigration is not only a US concern.In the first 9 months of 2008, the number of illegals landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa,...
- Looking Beyond the G-20 - November 19, 2008
- Gary Weaver is a co-authorAs the G-20 Meeting in Washington proved, it is finally becoming apparent that our world has crossed a point of no return. Invited by the...
- Great Expectations and Business as Usual - November 5, 2008
- Senator Barack Obama’s decisive victory will forever stand witness to America’s founding principles of opportunity for all, and will symbolize the achievement of...
- Who Guides US-EU Dialogue? - October 14, 2008
- Regardless of who is elected US president on November 4th, the change in administration provides a badly needed opportunity for rebuilding trans-Atlantic relations, so...
- Toward a New “Concert of Powers” - September 29, 2008
- As the first decade of the 21st century winds down, a new urgency attends the nature and quality European-American relations, triggered in part by a resurgent Russia,...
- Russian Threat or Cold-War Nostalgia? - September 10, 2008
- Reaction to the Georgian crisis has raised the specter of a return to the Cold War. Some argue that Georgia’s impulsive young president, Mikheil Saakashvili, clearly...
- Georgia: A Chance for New Mistakes - August 27, 2008
- Public debate on the Russia-Georgia conflict has been awash in historical analogies. Do they explain and guide policy formulation or just rationalize political...