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Chancellor Angela Merkel's re-election was secured thanks to the near-collapse of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the strong performance of the classical liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP). Read More.
Can a nation spend its way to prosperity? We don't have to guess.… Read more
Sally McNamara comments on Angela Merkel's claim that German multiculturalism has been a failure. … Read more
Abstract: The pretense that the European Union is successful and stable—and that the euro is a successful and stable currency—has been exploded by events surrounding the financial bailout of Greece. No one knows where the contagion will spread or how it may end. The… Read more
Nile Gardiner discusses a potential EU bailout for Greece on Fox News's Special Report. … Read more
In April 2009—less than three months into his term of office—President Barack Obama laid out the centerpiece of his foreign policy vision for his Administration: the global eradication of nuclear weapons. Citing America’s atomic strikes against the Japanese Empire during World War II, President Obama stated that… Read more
Testimony before theU.S.-China Economic and Security Review CommissionFebruary 25, 2009 The debate over the nature and implications of Chinese investment around the globe suffers badly from too much speculation and too few facts. It is in the PRC's… Read more
On February 7, Ukrainians elected former Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych as president, a defeat for current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The first round of elections, held on January 17, appeared to be free and fair. The U.S. embassy and OSCE concluded that the second… Read more
Nile Gardiner discussing Germany's Angela Merkel's refusal to bail out Greece. … Read more
Abstract: "The fall of the [Soviet] empire," former Czech president Vaclav Havel wrote, "is an event on the same scale of historical importance as the fall of the Roman Empire." It is true that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev repudiated the Brezhnev Doctrine--that the Soviet Union will use force if necessary… Read more
Full Text At the end of August, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, advised the Obama Administration that the mission in Afghanistan "will likely result in failure" unless the U.S. and NATO… Read more
Abstract: Russia's revenues from oil and natural gas are enabling its aggressive and often anti-Western foreign policy. Russia's falling economic performance has toned down Russia's rhetoric, but has not drastically changed Russia's foreign policy narrative, which remains decidedly anti- status quo and implicitly anti-American.… Read more
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The Arctic is quickly reemerging as a strategic area where vital U.S. interests are at stake. The geopolitical and geo-economic importance of the Arctic region is rising rapidly, and its mineral wealth will likely transform the region into a booming economic frontier in the 21st century. The coasts… Read more
President George W. Bush travels to Germany this week to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the G-8 summit in Moscow. In her first months as German leader, Merkel has made a significant effort to improve relations between Washington and Berlin in the wake of the tensions produced by disagreements over the war… Read more
The Bush Administration and Congress should strongly condemn Germany's extraordinary decision to release convicted terrorist and murderer Mohammad Ali Hammadi. Hammadi's release last month and subsequent transfer to Lebanon raise major questions about Germany's commitment to the war on terror and will cast a shadow over the January 11 White House meeting between President George… Read more
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The visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington has attracted little attention in the US media, perhaps...… Read more
Speaking to the media this weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CBS’s Bob Schieffer that at NATO’s Lisbon...… Read more
Speaking to younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party about Germany's 16 million...… Read more
In 2007, the director general of Britain’s internal security service described al-Qaeda and its associated groups as,...… Read more
Germany has taken the clear lead as the European sovereign debt crisis unfolds. This is an obvious outcome because of...… Read more
The country that leads the clean energy economy will lead the global economy. We’ve heard some version of that story a...… Read more
The proposed €110 billion ($140 billion) Greek rescue package announced on Sunday may well not survive the week....… Read more
The social and political drama that played out across Eastern Europe in the decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall...… Read more
The tentative nuclear deal that the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany)...… Read more