...Magnus Nordenman Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 From the Managing Editor: Whither the Transatlantic Community? Magnus Nordenman The southern Mediterranean rim forms part of what the former Swedish for- eign minister Carl Bildt called in a recent speech...

... consideration that militated against a strict application of a deflationary policy. The development of transatlantic relations with Charles de Gaulle's France posed a problem from an Allied perspective and was a factor that also militated against the strict application of a policy of monetary stability...

...Fatos Nano Fatos Nano is prime minister of Albania. Mediterranean Affairs,Inc. 2004 Albania, the Balkans, and the Process of Transatlantic Integration Fatos Nano In this essay I discuss contemporary Albania and the critical role...

...John Calabrese 2005 John Calabrese is book review editor at the Middle East Journal and assistant professor at American University in Washington, DC. Freedom on the March in the Middle East—And Transatlantic Relations on a New Course? John...

...Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo The start of the Obama administration offers an opportunity to rebuild the US–NATO transatlantic link on the foundation of shared values during the Cold War and the immediate post–9/11 response. Use of military power is not sufficient, and torture should never again...

...Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo The author, former deputy secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reviews the current status of the transatlantic alliance and the evolving role of NATO as an irreplaceable peacekeeping structure with extensive obligations in asymmetrical warfare...

... of the Second World War. By marking the end of the Soviet threat, it has also undeniably transformed the nature and focal point of the transatlantic relationship. As consul general of Greece in Berlin at the time, I was privileged to wit- ness this major event first hand. My subsequent posts...

... and defense ministers, and an integrated multinational military command. The alliance became the centerpiece of an emerging transatlantic community — a community that was based not only on common values and cultural ties but on a shrewd calculation of interests: for North America as well as for Europe...

... that the real purpose of the transatlantic alliance was to keep the Americans in Europe, the Rus- sians out, and the Germans down. Since the end of the Cold War, the Rus- sians have withdrawn, the Germans have reunified, and the Americans remain engaged...

... that will challenge its ability to adapt creatively and flexibly to new circum- stances. The post–Cold War era ended on 11 September 2001. The events of that day and their aftermath have forever changed the international environment in which NATO and the broader transatlantic relationship exist. Interna- tional...

... the Balkan region remained an epi- center of interethnic tension despite the presence of thousands of North Atlantic Treaty Organization “protection forces.” Alas, the transatlantic part- nership, which had sustained Western Europe’s security and shored up its...

.... For the United States, Alge- ria became, and to a large extent remains, a transatlantic rather than a regional security issue. Contours of the Current Situation Much has changed since the appalling events of the mid-1990s. The level...

..., “Emerging Demo- graphic Patterns across the Mediterranean and Their Implications for Migration through 2030,” Migration Policy Center Report (Washington, DC: Transatlantic Council on Migration Policy, November 2008), 1 – 13. 8  Mediterranean Quarterly: March 2016 a fertility rate of 6.1...

... U.S. Missile Defenses and Europe W. Bruce Weinrod Close to a decade after the end of the Cold War, the transatlantic security relationship remains solid. At the same time, inevitable differences of per- ception...

... still has a part in transatlantic relations, but that role will diminish in the future. Furthermore, attempts to retain NATO as the key- stone of the relationship will complicate relations more than sustain them. Verdicts that NATO is dead, however, are premature...

... strongly shaken to the point that new dividing lines seem apparent in both transatlantic and European relations. This presents difficulties for a medium-sized country like Romania, which is still trying to manage its internal transformation after dic- tatorship. It needs to reorient itself and find its...

... in the region. Nevertheless, in recent years Middle East issues have been sources of both transatlantic and intra-European fric- tion. The British-American relationship has been somewhat susceptible to this tension. On balance, however, U.S. and British officials have...

... Philip H. Gordon, The Transatlantic Allies and the Changing Middle East, Adelphi Paper, no. 322 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1998), 33; David Allen and Alfred Pipjers, European Foreign Policy Making and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers...

... in the Mediterranean could be a decisive foreign policy mechanism that could assist in strengthening the transatlantic partnership at a stage in history when its entire raison d’être is being questioned. The more multilateralist- oriented American foreign policy perspective that the Obama administra- tion...

... with a transatlantic spirit of cooperation. Instead of expressing support against international terror- MQ 11.2-02.Safronov 4/10/00 11:33 AM Page 27 Safronov: New Trials for Europe 27 ism, we see a tendency to romanticize...