French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he will decide by late 2008 or early 2009 whether France will fully rejoin the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is one of the more important issues left unresolved at the recently concluded Bucharest Summit, where Sarkozy proclaimed: “I reaffirm here France’s determination to pursue the process of renovating its relations with NATO.” Download PDF

The biggest favour the EU and NATO can do each other is to put their respective houses in order. An organization is only as strong as the collective strength and will of its members. It is impossible to have a strong NATO –or EU- when its member states are weak or have no resolve in tackling the problems. Download PDF

The behavior of the Chinese Government in Tibet has reasonably produced a scandal in Europe. Can we participate in Olympic Games, which among other things, will honor and glorify China, and recognize it as one of the great global powers to characterize the 21st century? Download PDF Descargar PDF

NATO approaches the Bucharest summit with a serious problem: Afghanistan. It is widely held that the troops deployed there by NATO are severely insufficient to face the growing threat posed by both the reestablished Taliban forces and the terrorists, which form a part of global jihad. Overall, however, Afghanistan is not the cause of the hardships facing the Atlantic Alliance today. Afghanistan, in reality, is only one of its many problems. It’s an additional symptom, but not the illness itself. Download PDF Descargar PDF

What NATO needs to do is face its own internal problems of relatively careless Americans and extremely impotent European military power. These strengths and weaknesses produce two very distinct images for the world to see. If the great powers of NATO do not deal with this paradox, it will soon become a meaningless alliance, with or without Bucharest and the coming summit. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Islamic fundamentalism is the global terrorists’ driving ideology. Sadly, there are no influential Muslim voices with the will and the power to move the focus of the Muslim world toward purging itself of the barbaric tendencies that spring from the dark dogma of reactionary Islam. Download PDF Descargar PDF

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - a so-called "anti-terrorism, anti-separatism, anti-extremism" grouping, including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, which holds its fifth annual meeting this week - definitely reeks of trouble for Uncle Sam. Download PDF Descargar PDF

U.N.-led multilateralism is neither a substitute for leadership, nor a vehicle for winning the war. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Artists are often praised for their ability to peer into the future. When the hysteria over the Danish Mu-hammad cartoons was at its height last month, another cartoon circu-lated on the Internet depicting a Lego "Danish embassy" playset--complete with embassy ablaze, Dan-ish flags going up in smoke, and little Lego Islamists carrying plac-ards that read "Europe the cancer, Islam the Answer." In linking Lego toys, a symbol of Denmark and of childhood innocence, with the cam-paign of hatred against Denmark sweeping through the Arab world, the cartoonist was more prescient than we knew. Download PDF Descargar PDF

After reading the reports of the In-ternational Atomic Energy Agency's decision last Saturday to refer Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council it is hard to know whether to laugh or cry. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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