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Spring 2008 - Number 14

From the Publisher

Tom Neumann

Editor’s Corner

Ilan Berman

The New Europe

The Battle for Our Common Future

Michael Chertoff

The stakes behind the West’s current struggle

Stumbling Toward Eurabia

Alex Alexiev

Barbarians inside the European gates

Is the Special Relationship Still Special?

Sally McNamara

Europe, the new challenge to U.S.-UK ties

Turning the Page

Astrid Coeurderoy

Nicholas Sarkozy closes the book on the anti-American era in France

Berlin’s Best Hope

Ulf Gartzke

Angela Merkel holds the key to a more constructive German foreign policy

Europe’s Rising East

Janusz Bugajski

Eastern Europe and the Balkans between East and West

Escaping Gazprom’s Embrace

Borut Grgic & Alexandros Petersen

For Europe, real energy security means rolling back Russian influence—and focusing on the Caspian

The Case for European Missile Defense

Peter Brookes

Why missile defense cooperation with Europe matters

Russia’s “Nuclear Renaissance”

Victor Mizin

Back to nuclear basics between Moscow and Washington

Debating NATO

Facing the Future

Jamie Shea

The Atlantic Alliance needs to adapt to new security threats

An Obsolete Alliance

E. Wayne Merry

NATO has long outlived its usefulness to America

Perspective

“Tough Choices Ahead”: An Interview with J. D. Crouch II

The former Deputy National Security Advisor explains the centrality of the “third site,” Russia’s resurgence, and U.S. policy toward Iran

Dispatches

NEW DELHI: The Politics of Nuclear Cooperation

C. Uday Bhaskar

LONDON: Downing Street Blues

Michael Gove

BAGHDAD: Winds of Change

Joel D. Rayburn

Book Reviews

Looking Back to Look Forward

Asaf Romirowsky

From Michael Oren, a masterful exposé of America’s experience with the Middle East

Turf War

Ilan Berman

Vali Nasr’s partisan look inside the Shia-Sunni schism

Tracking the Dragon

Randall G. Schriver

Eisenman et al. bring us closer to understanding China’s changing foreign policy

Expecting the Unexpected

Adam Lovinger

A framework for addressing unforeseen catastrophes, courtesy of Fukuyama and company