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Nick Witney
Nick Witney, former Chief Executive of the European Defense Agency, is a senior policy fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
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Europe’s Troublesome Neighbors
Nick Witney Series: Europe at Home and Abroad 2010-01-06Geography has dealt Europe a mixed hand. While Europeans can congratulate themselves on being a relatively safe distance away from whatever tensions may accompany the rise of powers like India, Brazil, and, especially, China, they are bordered to the south and east by two great regions that give cause for significant concern.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 9550
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Time for a Post-American Europe
Nick Witney and Jeremy Shapiro Series: The World in Words 2009-11-30
We are entering a post-American world – the world beyond America’s brief moment of global domination. But, while the Obama administration understands this, Europeans continue to fetishize the transatlantic relationship.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 9514
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Obama’s New World Order
Nick Witney Series: Europe at Home and Abroad 2009-06-12As the world continues to digest Barack Obama’s historic speech in Cairo, it should be evident that his dramatic overture to the Islamic world was only the latest in a series of such openings by this remarkable US president. Indeed, his ambition extends to nothing less than a complete reshaping of the global order.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 13422
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The Death of NATO
Nick Witney Series: The World in Words 2008-11-28NATO, whose foreign ministers will meet next week, is dying, and, as it enters its twilight years, the US should encourage the EU to grow into its global responsibilities. For, despite all their differences and mutual dissatisfactions, Europe and the US know that each is the best friend either is likely to have for the foreseeable future.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14065
