Did Obama Snub Europe?

CTR Director Dan Hamilton explains why President Obama decided against an EU-US Summit in Spain, on BBC news here (32 minutes into program). 

New Book and Policy Report
Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic U.S.-EU Partnership

The U.S.-EU relationship is important but not strategic. In this new book, leading U.S. and European experts call for a more effective U.S.-EU partnership in areas ranging from resilience and conflict management to energy sustainability, open markets and a broad Atlantic Basin Initiative. CTR joined forces with the Atlantic Council, CSIS, and 5 European think tanks for this unique project. Read the full report or the executive summary.  To order the book, click here.  For a summary in Spanish, click here.  The U.S.-EU Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue has endorsed specific proposals in the report here.  Report co-author Fran Burwell offered recommendations from the report in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee here.  For comments by Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Undersecretary of State Robert Hormats on the report, click here.  Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb endorsed the report's call for a Transatlantic Solidarity Pledge and other U.S.-EU reforms in a speech at Chatham House here.

Haiti and Beyond: Improving Transatlantic Cooperation in Humanitarian Assistance

The US and EU provide more than 80% of the world's humanitarian assistance. CTR and GPPI show how they can be more effective in an action paper here.

Obama and Europe: Year Two

CTR Director Dan Hamilton describes transatlantic challenges in this article for the German weekly Das Parlament (in German) here. For the full set of essays click here. Dan Hamilton and Nikolas Foster join other experts to outline challenges and opportunities ahead here.

Italy's Role in International Security

At CTR, Italian Foreign Minister Frattini charts his country's contributions here.

On a Wing and a Prayer

Europe's new military transport aircraft is finally flying -- but that shouldn't be a cause for celebration, notes CTR visiting scholar Bjoern Seibert in Foreign Policy.

Two Earthquakes and a Near-Miss Bombing Signal a Challenging 2010

Read Kurt Volker's assessment here in La Stampa.

"Iraq, Afghanistan, and Obama?"

CTR's Kurt Volker appears on Atlantic TV's "American Dream" program here and gives his assessment of the Afghanistan Confernce in London here on the CBC's Power & Politics with Evan Solomon.

Building Transatlantic Resilience

In the wake of the Christmas Day terrorist attempt, Dan Hamilton argues in Global Europe for a robust effort at transatlantic homeland security.  Kurt Volker discusses the White House security report on the Detroit bomber in an online chat at WashingtonPost.com.

The Treaty of Lisbon: What does it Mean?

Read CTR Director Dan Hamilton's testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives here.

Climate Change Beyond Copenhagen

Scott Barrett argues here that a series of smaller deals are needed; Jean-Pierre Lehman asks here whether the EU has lost its global relevance.

 What is NATO's Future?!

In advance of the 2010 the Lisbon NATO Summit, CTR and three other U.S. think tanks offer recommendations in the Executive Summary of Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic Compact for the 21st Century.  Read testimony by CTR's Kurt Volker and CTR's Dan Hamilton before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  Daniel Korski and Tomas Valasek argue for new EU-NATO links here.

The Indivisibility of Security: Russia and Euro-Atlantic Security

CTR Fellow Don Jensen and other authors examine Russian proposals for a new Euro-Atlantic security system here.  Vladimir Socor analyzes Russian President Medvedev's draft european security treaty here.

Knocking Down Transatlantic Economic Barriers

CTR hosted the release of a major two-year study of the economic potential that could be gained from removing or aligning U.S.-EU non-tariff barriers to trade and investment. The study offers an economic analysis of 23 different sectors of the transatlantic economy, from travel and financial services to aerospace, electronics, autos and chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and biotechnology. CTR Director Dan Hamilton served as the U.S. member of the Steering Committee for this study. Read the highlights, the full study, the annexes, and the presentation of Mr. Bertin Martens, Chief Economist of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade, at CTR on December 16.

Call for Applications:  CTR Visiting Fellowships on Central Europe

Beginning in 2010, two outstanding scholars will be selected in an open, competitive process to conduct research on important issues related to Central Europe at CTR. The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellows will be appointed for a nine- month period from October to June each academic year. Click here for information about the collaboration and here for the call for applications.

"(Not) Too Big to Fail?"

CTR visiting scholar Bjoern Seibert explains here in European Voice why bailing out the Airbus A400M will harm European defence co-operation.

Next Steps on Af/Pak

Watch CTR's Kurt Volker on BBC's Newsnight here and here and CBC's Power & Politics with Evan Solomon; read his comments in the Washington Post. CTR Fellow Thomas Rid discusses Germany's Options in Afghanistan in Survival. Calin Trenkov-Wermuth argues that if Europe fails Pakistan, democracy and rights lose out.  Read CTR's Kurt Volker comment on selling the war on the home front here and here. CTR Fellow Thomas Rid and Timo Noetzel comment (in German) on Germany's efforts in the Financial Times Deutschland here.

Global Economic Governance: Beyond Management by the United States and the European Union?

The fall 2009 issue of Business and Politics, published by Berkeley Electronic Press, features papers produced for the annual Transatlantic Economic Dialogue, co-sponsored by CTR and the BMW Foundation.

Reflections on a New European Security Architecture

Read CTR's Michael Haltzel's slightly revised version, in Russian, of his speech to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on May 8, 2009, in the journal Mir peremen.  

Fortresses & Icebergs:  The Evolution of the Transatlantic Defense Market and the Implications for U.S. National Security Policy

CTR's Jeffrey P. Bialos presents his new book at CSIS here.  Defense News reports on it here.  Watch Defense News TV with Bialos here.

Improving Humanitarian Assistance:
A Transatlantic Agenda for Action

GPPi and CTR publish action paper on transatlantic cooperation in humanitarian assistance.

Needed: A Social Dimension to Transatlantic Economic Relations

 Read recommendations from Metropolitan University in London here.