Transatlantic Topics | Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

• The World Ten Years After September 11
  A distinguished panel of SAIS faculty -- all of them engaged as senior government officials during this period -- reflected on the past and offered recommendations for the future. Speakers were José María Aznar, Distinguished Fellow, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, Former President of the Government of Spain; John McLaughlin, Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Former Acting Director, CIA; Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies; Director of the Strategic Studies Program; Director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Former Counselor of the U.S. Department of State; Eric Edelman, Distinguished Practitioner in Residence in Strategic Studies; Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; former Ambassador to Turkey and to Finland; and Dan Hamilton, Director, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations. View the full event video and read the speech by Former President Aznar here.

• Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise
  John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, spoke at SAIS on June 29. Click here for a video of his speech and his prepared remarks.
  
  
• Transatlantic Security Paper Number 4 -- Oslo terrorist attacks: Analysis, consequences and lessons learned
  Jean-Luc Marret and Emmanuel Clavaud examine the motivations in this paper for the terrorist attack in Oslo, and the Norwegian response, providing lessons for counter-terrorism services and emergency response teams.

• Transatlantic Security Paper Number 3 -- EU Mission in Kosovo: Constructing Ambiguity or Constructive Disunity?
  CTR’s David Cadier analyzes the EU’s role as a regional security actor through the case of EULEX, in the CTR-FRS Transatlantic Security Papers series.

• Transatlantic Security Paper Number 2 --  The Next Step After Japan? (Virtual reality, training and crisis management)
  Emmanuel Clavaud, Director of the SDIS-04 (Fire and Rescue District Service) and Associate Fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, writes about the use of virtual reality and serious games to prepare for crises and the advantages from increased transatlantic coordination for disaster response. Read this June 2011 Transatlantic Security Paper here.

• Prospects for Transatlantic Cooperation on Homeland Security
  European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce C. Swartz spoke at CTR on Dec 8 about the EU Internal Security Strategy and what it means for the United States. Click here for Commissioner Malmström's prepared remarks.

• Forging Networked Security in a Nobody-in-Charge World
  Much discussion of the emerging world order emphasizes relations between Great Powers. Reality will be different, and driven by in-between peoples and spaces, argues CTR Executive Director Dan Hamilton in The International Spectator.

• Dataleaks and Transatlantic Consequences
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments for Der Spiegel on the impact of released diplomatic cables and for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung here (in German).

• Preventing Terror at Domodedovo: the Power Vertical Comes up Short
  CTR Senior Fellow Don Jensen comments here for Voice of America.
  
  
• Homeward bound - AQIM fails to strike Western Europe
  CTR's Jean-Luc Marret comments here in Jane's Intelligence Review.

• From Lockerbie to Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab
  Read Jean-Luc Marret's April 2010 Transatlantic Security paper here.
  
  
• Behind the Moscow Bombing
  CTR Fellow Jean-Luc Marret offers thoughts here.

• Hoping for the Best is Not Always Enough
  CTR Non-Resident fellow Bjoern Seibert argues that the EU needs to weigh more carefully its decisions to engage in military operations in European Voice here.

• Transatlantic Information-Sharing
  Following the Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner, how can the U.S and its allies share information to prevent terrorism and secure travel? Read the report on “Transatlantic Information Sharing” by the Migration Policy Institute and Heinrich Boell Stiftung.

• Improving Humanitarian Assistance: A Transatlantic Agenda for Action
  GPPi and CTR publish action paper on transatlantic cooperation in humanitarian assistance
  

• Two Earthquakes and a Near-Miss Bombing Signal a Challenging 2010
  Read Kurt Volker's assessment here in La Stampa.
  
  
• Deciphering the Fallout on Obama's Missile Plan
  CTR's Kurt Volker shares his thoughts on the range of issues surrounding President Obama's missile defense announcement, in the
  New York Times. SAIS Professor Charles Gati comments. CTR's Stuart Koehl discusses the downside of President Obama cutting our number of strategic nuclear warheads on KOA News Radio.
  
  
• SecurityThe New Face of German Defense
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton assesses the new German Defense Minister.

• The Future of Intelligence Sharing after the Binyam Mohamed Case
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme .

• Prevention of Biothreats: A Look Ahead
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton spoke at this conference.

• Razzia: A Turning Point in Modern Strategy
  CTR's Thomas Rid discusses the historical context of this tactic here in Terrorism and Political Violence.

• Atlantic Storm
  On January 18, 2006, the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network put together Atlantic Storm, a ministerial bioterrorism exercise simulating an attack of a pathogenic agent on the nations of the transatlantic community.  Click here for more.
  
  
• The Future of US Nukes in Europe: A View from Poland
  Click here for analysis by Lukasz Kulesa from the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
  
  
• Countering Terror in the UK and Canada
  The UK has released a report outlining its revised counterterrorism strategy, known as CONTEST. Find it here. Meanwhile, Canadian analysts are critical of their country’s efforts here.
  
  
• Over 500 planned terrorist attacks in EU in 2008
  reports Europol here.  For the 2009 EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report, click here.
  
  
• The Saharan Conundrum 
  CTR Fellow Jean-Luc Marret is quoted on Al Qaida in Islamic Maghreb in the New York Times Magazine here.
  
  
• Strengthening Biodefense Internationally
  Marc Ostfield tells us how here. For more on CTR's work on biodefense, click here.
  
  
• Obama's National Security Agenda?
  CTR Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel tells us what it could be here.
  
  
• Terrorism in the EU: Threats and Trends
  Read EUROPOL's 2008 Terrorism Situation and Trend Report here.
  
  
• What's the Threat of Jihadist Terrorism in Germany?
  Guido Steinberg tells us here.

• Helsinki to Helsinki: The Future of the OSCE
  On October 15, 2008 CTR co-sponsored a symposium with The Embassy of Finland on the Future of the OSCE.  Read remarks by Finnish Secretary of State Pertti Torstila; SAIS Conflict Management Program Director P. Terrence Hopmann, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor David Kramer; Director of the OSCE Secrectary General's office Paul Fritch; Senior Counselor at the Embassy of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Lukashevich; and University for Peace Rector John Maresca.

• The Coming Nuclear Debate
  Bruno Tertrais argues for a reassessment of the U.S. nuclear presence in Europe here.
  

• The New National Defense Strategy:  A Constructive “Legacy” Vision
  Read CTR Senior Fellow Jeffrey P. Bialos' Occassional Paper here.
  

• A Sensible but Forgotten Agenda
  CTR Senior Fellow Jeff Bialos looks at transatlantic defense industrial cooperation here.
  

• Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb: A “Glocal” Organization
  CTR visiting fellow Jean-Luc Marret published an article in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Read it here.
  

• A Tale of Two Allies
  The Polish lesson: America must give something in return for support
  CEPA’s Wess Mitchell reflects here, in The Christian Science Monitor, on the determination of Poland’s new government to drive a hard bargain on missile defense with U.S. negotiators.
  

• ESDP and the Transatlantic Relationship
  Can the U.S. and the EU work directly on security? What are the implications for NATO? See the analysis by Volker Heise for SWP here.
  

• U.S. Attitudes Evolve About EU Security Ambitions
  Article by CTR's Chantal de Jonge Oudraat in European Affairs - click here.
  

• Economic Sanctions and International Peace and Security
  Chapter by CTR's Chantal de Jonge Oudraat in Leashing The Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall (Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace, 2007) - click here.
  
  
• Fighting Terrorists: EU and US Challenges
  Gijs de Vries, former EU Counterterrorism Coordinator, offers ways to fight terrorism here.
  

• Histoires de djihad
  CTR's Jean-Luc Marret and Michel Guerin examine the different challenges and aspects of jihad across time and cultures, in war and peace, from individual action to collective efforts.  Click here for more information on this new book (in French).
  

• Civil Liberties in an Age of Terror
  Dieter Grimm analyzes here the difficulties of preserving civil liberties in an age of terror, the complicated balance between the need for security and for liberty, and compares US and European approaches.
  

• The GSPC/Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb: A mix of low and high-tech capabilities
  Jean-Luc Marret, CTR Fellow and Fondation Pour la Recherche Strategique Research Fellow, comments here on the latest GSPC evolutions, and its most recent terrorist activities.
  

• "Shaping a Sensible Strategy to Ensure America's National Security: A Conversation About Values, Issues and Solutions."
  On June 14 and 15, CTR and the American Security Project hosted a symposium on National Security.  Click here to listen to audio of Senator John Kerry's remarks and Q&A.  Click here to read his prepared remarks.  Click here to listen to audio of former Senator Gary Hart's remarks and Q&A.
  

• "A Renewed Transatlantic Partnership for Global Security"
  Adrian Cioroianu, Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke at CTR on June 14, 2007 - for the audio of his remarks, click here and scroll down the page; for the transcript, click here.
  

• Economic Sanctions and International Peace and Security
  Chapter by CTR's Chantal de Jonge Oudraat in Leashing The Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall (Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace, 2007) - click here.
  

• Missile Defense and U.S.-Polish Relations
  Commentary on U.S. missile defense negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic and broadening the agenda, by CEPA Associate Scholar Peter Podbielski -click here.
  

• Don't Waver on Waivers
  Commentary on the US visa waiver program for all EU member states by Richard Weitz -click here.

• How has the Royal Netherlands Army 'transformed' and why?
  Commentary (in French) by former CTR Fellow Rem Korteweg - click here.

• "OSCE's Year-End Conference - When Failure Helps Clarity"
  Article by Vladimir Socor, courtesy of the Jamestown Foundation - click here.

• "The Evolution of Jihadi Profiles"
  Article by CTR Fellow Jean-Luc Marret - click here.

• The Pentagon and Europe
  The Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is a mixed bag for European allies, comments Benjamin Schreer here.

• Civil-military crisis management: Challenges and Perspectives
  A presentation by Richard Narith - click here.