The purpose of this section is to publish commentaries (or excerpts in some cases) from unpublished or previously published works on issues that affect the democratic nations in the Atlantic Community.

Atlantic Community History, Background

Sten Rynning review of NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community, published in International Affairs (London), 2004.

Nicole Renvert review of NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community published in The International Spectator, 2003.

NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered by Stanley R. Sloan, Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, November 2002. (Click on title for contents, reviews and to order.)

Stanley R. Sloan, European Proposals for a New Atlantic Community, [PDF document] Congressional Research Service report 95-374 S, March 10, 1995  (background on European proposals in the mid-1990s for a new Atlantic Community)   

Table of Participation in Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions [updated April 26, 2009]

Heiko Borchert, Strengthening Europe’s Security Architecture:  Where Do We Stand?  Where Should We Go?   

NATO in the 21st Century, Senator William V. Roth, Jr., Special Presidential Report to the North Atlantic Assembly (NATO Parliamentary Assembly) 1998.

 

US Policy, Iraq, Afghanistan, and NATO’s Future

NEW!!  “Pondering NATO’s Future,”  Stanley R. Sloan, International Herald Tribune, March 5, 2009.  This opinion piece suggests that, in the context of the 60th anniversary summit, NATO leaders should examine closely some popular assumptions surrounding the alliance.

NEW!!  “NATO and US Interests after 60 Years: Challenges and Opportunities”, Stanley R. Sloan, Keynote address to the 13th Annual Military Ball, in support of the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Museum and Library, Santa Barbara, California, November 8, 2008.

NEW!!  “How and Why Did NATO Survive Bush Doctrine”, Stanley R. Sloan, Report by the NATO College Research Directorate, October 2008. This report analyses how and why the transatlantic relationship survived the crisis brought on by the policies and attitudes of the first administration of George W. Bush and then suggests what the experience might suggest about the future of the alliance. 

NEW!!  “NATO’s Uncertain Future:  Is Demography Destiny?, Jeffrey Simon, Strategic Forum, No. 236, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, October 2008.   This report questions whether NATO will be able to sustain collective military operations and political unity in the face of changing demographics of NATO countries.

NEW!!  “Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?,” Swords and Ploughshares,” August 2008.  This collection of articles by Stanley R. Sloan, Ryan C. Hendrickson, Paul F. Diehl and Edward A. Kolodziej, edited by Matthew A. Rosenstein, examines the significant challenges facing NATO as it conducts its first mission outside the Euro-Atlantic arena in its nearly sixty-year history.

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, “Beyond the Bucharest Summit,” Presentation to the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum, March 15, 2008.

Stephen J. Flanagan, Leo G. Michel, James J. Przystup and John A. Cope, “Adapting Alliances and Partnerships,” Chapter 7 in Strategic Challenges,  America’s Global Security Agenda, National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, Inc., 2008.

NATO College Research Directorate, Dr. Karl-Heinz Kamp, Director, “NATO before Bucharest:  The Alliance at the Crossroads,” Summary Conference Findings, January 2008.

Stanley R. Sloan, “NATO Beyond Russia: Building a New Foundation for Transatlantic Relations,” speaking notes for a presentation at the 11th annual Russia-NATO conference at the St. Petersburg (Russia) State University, School of International Affairs, 16 February 2007.

Marten van Heuven, “The Future of the Atlantic Alliance,” speaking notes for a presentation at Middlebury College, 29 January 2007.

Kristin Archik, “The United States and Europe: Current Issues,” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, Updated April 6, 2006. (This report, designed to provide expert objective and non-partisan research and analysis to the US Congress, is an excellent survey of US-European relations – Atlantic Community Initiative.)

Marten van Heuven, “The Global Setting for Transatlantic Relations.” Speaking Notes for a Lecture at Middlebury College, January 13, 2006.

Marten van Heuven, “Rethinking the Transatlantic Relationship in the 21st Century,” Speaking Notes for a Lecture at Middlebury College, January 14, 2005.

Stanley R. Sloan, Robert G. Sutter and Casimir A. Yost, The Use of U.S. Power: Implications for U.S. Interests, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, June 2004.

Stanley R. Sloan presentation at Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, October 2, 2003 sponsored by Norwegian Atlantic Committee (extended version).

Louis R. Golino, “Iraq is chance for U.S. to fix its relations,” The Washington Times, April 27, 2003.

Stanley R. Sloan, “Challenges to the Transatlantic Relationship”, In the National Interest, March 12, 2003.

Stanley R. Sloan:  Notes for presentation at German Council on Foreign Relations, February 10, 2003

Stanley R. Sloan and Detlef Puhl lead discussion of transatlantic relations at Center for Applied Policy Research, University of Munich, Germany, February 12, 2003

Wolfgang Buecherl, “NATO’s Course”, Center for Applied Policy Research, University of Munich, February 17, 2003.

Louis R. Golino,  "NATO role in Iraq vital: U.S. Likely to Rely on Alliance for Postwar Peacekeeping,"  The Washington Times, November 18, 2002, page A19.

Stanley R. Sloan, NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century, Crisis, Continuity or Change?, Foreign Policy Association Headline Series No. 324, November 1, 2002.

Stanley Sloan and Peter van Ham, What future for NATO?, Centre for European Reform Working Paper, October 2002.

Louis R. Golino, NATO seen adapting to terror war; Alliance used only sparingly after attacks, The Washington Times, Aug 18, 2002.

Louis R. Golino, Time to Thank Europe for its Help on Terrorism, Global Beat Syndicate, July 9, 2002.

Karen Donfried, Highwire Act Across the Atlantic, Washington Times, May 22, 2002.

Stanley R. Sloan, Toward a New Transatlantic Bargain, Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2002.

Stanley R. Sloan, Crisis Response, “Opinion” in NATO Review, Spring 2002

Louis R. Golino, War on Terror Affects Role of EU’s Future .

Stanley R. Sloan, Give NATO a Combined Task Force Against Terrorism .

 

General U.S.-European Relations

Political

NEW!!  “Faith, Freedom and Fundamentalism:  Challenges to Transatlantic Relations and Beyond,” Keynote address by Stanley R. Sloan to the “International Affairs Conference on Religion and International Politics:  Now and Into the Future,” Star Island, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, July 20, 2008.

Karsten Voigt, “Religion is the wild card in transatlantic relations,” with commentary by Stanley R. Sloan, “We should be intolerant of intolerance,” Europe’s World, Summer 2006.

Stanley R. Sloan, “All the president’s truths,” International Herald Tribune, May 19, 2006.

Stanley R. Sloan, “How Does Religion Affect Relations between America and Europe?” EuroFuture, Winter 2005.

Stanley R. Sloan and Heiko Borchert, “Europe, U.S. Must Rebalance Soft, Hard Power, Defense News, September 8, 2003.

Robert Kagan, Power and Weakness, Policy Review, June-July 2002.

Ivo H. Daalder, Are the United States and Europe heading for divorce?,  International Affairs, Summer 2001 (included here with author’s permission) 

Simon Serfaty, “The U.S. – European Relationship:  Opportunities and Challenges,” Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Europe, 25 April 2001    http://www.csis.org/hill/ts010425serfaty.htm

 

Economic/financial

NEW!! NATO Report on Defense Expenditures, 19 February 2009.

Felix Rohatyn, “For ‘New America’, a fresh Atlantic Alliance,” International Herald Tribune, May 11, 2004.

 Joseph P. Quinlan, “Drifting Apart of Growing Together? The Primacy of the Transatlantic Economy,” Center for Transatlantic Relations, March 2003 (PDF file).

C. Fred Bergsten, The Transatlantic Century, as published in the Washington Post, April 30, 2002

 

NATO-EU Relations (ESDI/CESDP)

NEW!!  “Birthing Athena, The Uncertain Future of European Security and Defense Policy,” Christopher S. Chivvis, Focus stratégique n. 5, Security Studies Center, Institut Français des Relations Internationales, March 2008.

Heiko Borchert and Karina Forster, “Energy Infrastructure and EU-NATO Cooperation,” Security Europe, March 2007. www.seceur.info

Zacharias Giakoumis, “ EU-NATO Relations after the Riga Summit”,  speaking notes for a panel presentation at the 16th Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland, 8 September 2006.

Louis R. Golino,  "NATO role in Iraq vital: U.S. Likely to Rely on Alliance for Postwar Peacekeeping,"  The Washington Times, November 18, 2002, page A19.

U.S. – CREST, Future Military Coalitions, The Transatlantic Challenge, September 2002.

Robert E. Hunter, The European Security and Defense Policy, NATO’s Companion – or Competitor?, RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2002.

Stanley R. Sloan, Opinion article entitled "The U.S. and Europe Need New Marriage Vows" originally published in the Wall Street Journal Europe, February 21, 2001.

Louis R. Golino, "EU military endorsed Rapid-reaction force would add to influence, study says" Washington Times; Washington, D.C.; Apr 8, 2001

Stanley R. Sloan, “The United States and European Defence” (Chaillot Papers, No. 39) http://www.weu.int/institute/chaillot/chai39e.pdf

Francois Heisbourg et. al., “European Defence:  Making It Work”, (Chaillot Papers, No. 42)  http://www.weu.int/institute/chaillot/chai42e.pdf

Kori Schake, “EU Should Duplicate NATO Assets,” CER Bulletin, June/July 2001                   http://www.cer.org.uk/n5publicatio/bulletin.html

Jolyon Howorth, “European integration and defence: the ultimate challenge?”
(Chaillot Papers, No. 43) http://www.weu.int/institute/chaillot/chai43e.pdf
 
M. Ortega, “Military intervention and the European Union” (Chaillot Papers,
No. 45) http://www.weu.int/institute/chaillot/chai45e.pdf

Maartje Rutten (compilation), “From St-Malo to Nice: European defence - core
documents” (Chaillot Papers, No. 47) http://www.weu.int/institute/chaillot/chai47e.pdf

 

Bosnia and Kosovo

RAND, European Contributions to Operation Allied Force:  Implications for Transatlantic Cooperation ;   report summary.

 

Transatlantic Military/Industrial Cooperation

CSIS Report, “The Future of the Transatlantic Defense Community,” January 2003.

Burkard Schmitt (ed.), Between cooperation and competition: the transatlantic defence market (Chaillot Papers, No. 44) http://www.weu.int/institute/chaillot/chai44e.pdf

U.S. – CREST, Future Military Coalitions, The Transatlantic Challenge, September 2002.

 

Defense spending, force structure and capabilities

NEW!! NATO Report on Defense Expenditures, 19 February 2009.

Robert Hunter and George Joulwan, Co-Chair, C. Richard Nelson, Project Director and Rapporteur, New Capabilities: Transforming NATO Forces, Atlantic Council of the United States, September 2002.

 

NATO and EU Enlargement

Leo Michel, “NATO-EU Cooperation in Operations,” Research Paper, Academic Research Branch, NATO College, Rome, Italy, February 2007.

Vladimir Bilcik, The Emergence of the CESDP and the state of the transatlantic relations: the perspective of Central European candidate states for EU membership  (Occasional paper published by the Austrian Institute for European Security, January 2002)

Phillip H. Gordon and James B. Steinberg, NATO Enlargement:  Moving Forward (Brookings Institution Policy Brief)

William Hopkinson, Enlargement:  A New NATO (Chaillot Papers, No. 49)

Ambassador Andras Simonyi, “Hungary in NATO --  after two years of membership,”

Vladimir Bilcik, "Can Slovakia Catch up? The Implications of EU Accession Talks a Year After the Helsinki Summit", DUPI Working Paper 2001/1, Copenhagen: DUPI, 2001 (Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association).

Thomas S. Szayna, “NATO Enlargement 2000-2015, Implications for Defense Planning,” RAND Research Brief, RB-62 (2001).  Site has link to full report summarized in this research brief.  http://www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB62/

Christina V. Balis, Editor, Enlargement:  A Priority for the European Union, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., May 2001.  http://www.csis.org/europe/pubs/enlargement.pdf