While neither the European Union nor Turkey lived up to its end of the EU-accession-process bargain last year, in my view Europe deserves more of the blame for the processes’ steady downward trajectory.
Last week I attended an in-house foreign policy discussion with New America Foundation Schwartz Senior Fellow Peter Beinart, who provided a tour of 20th century American foreign policy and introduced me to Walter Lippmann’s concept of “solvency.
Columbia University Professor and world renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz will be speaking today at a New America Foundation/Economic Growth Program public policy forum about his new book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.
The New America Foundation and Slate Magazine are co-hosting a special public policy forum today to discuss the context and consequences of Google’s threat to pull out of China. The event will run TODAY from 9:30 am – 11:00 am EST and will STREAM LIVE here at The Washington Note.
Tom Kutsch is a research associate at the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force.
Steve Clemons will be on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show tonight at about 9:25 pm EST talking with her about America’s foreign policy institutions, smart power, and state building.
Business Week recently published Eurasia Group’s “Top Global Risks of 2010.” I am always impressed with Eurasia Group President and Foreign Policy blogger Ian Bremmer, who provided a tour de force of global events at the New America Foundation last year.
It is ironic that foreign affairs analysts (and international investors) seem to be more sanguine about Turkey’s political and economic outlook heading into 2010 than they have been in years, but at the same time Turkey’s prospects of joining the European Union remain mired in a steady decline.
Anya Landau French is director of research for the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. Normally I say my piece and I let it go. But sometimes, the point bears repeating, especially when it deals with serious national security questions.
(President Barack Obama meets with John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, in the Oval Office, Jan. 4, 2010.