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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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  1. Hard Truths About Europe’s Soft Power
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    Hard Truths About Europe’s Soft Power

    Jun 25, 2014 Nick Witney calls for the EU to revamp its defense doctrine.

  2. Europe’s Troublesome Neighbors
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    Europe’s Troublesome Neighbors

    Jan 6, 2010 Nick Witney

  3. Time for a Post-American Europe
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    Time for a Post-American Europe

    Nov 30, 2009 Jeremy Shapiro & Nick Witney

  4. Obama’s New World Order
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    Obama’s New World Order

    Jun 12, 2009 Nick Witney

  5. The Death of NATO

    The Death of NATO

    Nov 28, 2008 Nick Witney

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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