In the wake of September 11 most American opinion leaders, understandably, focused on the war in Afghanistan, on Iraq, or on homeland security efforts in the United States. Consideration of the European response has largely focused on the degree to which NATO allies and the European Union have acted to support the United States and the international anti-terrorism coalition. September 11, however, underscored an important fact: future terrorist-WMD incidents will not be limited to the American homeland; the consequences will be international. Exploring the transatlantic policy implications of European and U.S. homeland security efforts is an important next step to be taken by the strategic community. America’s NATO allies invoked for the first time in history the Alliance’s mutual defense clause, in essence stating that the September 11 attack was an attack on 19 nations. Does the invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty imply that there is a “NATO Homeland?” What does that mean for operational policy? Should we organize our respective efforts at societal protection or “homeland security” in a more systematic and coordinated “transatlantic” fashion? The Center leads the international policy work of the Johns-Hopkins-based U.S. National Center of Excellence on Homeland Security, awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This Center for the Study of High Consequence Preparedness and Response (PACER), is one of five U.S. university-based centers of excellence in homeland security. A particular focus of the Center’s work has been transatlantic biodefense efforts together with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Center for Biosecurity. The Center for Transatlantic Relations also works on transatlantic approaches managing the movement of people, goods, and money as part of the international anti-terrorism campaign, and has produced a series of books and monographs on this subject. PACER (Center for the Study of High Consequence Preparedness and Response)
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) leads a consortium studying how the nation can best prepare for and respond to potential large-scale incidents and disasters. Click here for more information. 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.
CTR Publications - Fighting Terrorist Financing: Transatlantic Cooperation and International Institutions
- Transforming Homeland Security: U.S. and European Approaches
- Transatlantic Homeland Security? Protecting Society in the Age of Catastrophic Terrorism
- Protecting the Homeland: European Approaches to Total Defense and Societal Security and their Implications for the United States
- 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; 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.
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