The Weekly Standard February 23, 2010 Josh Rogin asks NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen if the alliance has any concerns about the proposed sale of several Mistral-class amphibious assault ships by France to the Russian Navy. The answer: more
EuropeanVoice.com February 22, 2010 The personal, short-term considerations of European politicians suggest the IMF will be left on the sidelines. more
The Wall Street Journal February 19, 2010 The top climate-change official at the United Nations is leaving to become a private consultant, a move that follows the failure of a U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen to produce a binding agreement to curb global greenhouse-gas emissions. more
The Wall Street Journal February 19, 2010 AMSTERDAM—An election promise to pull Dutch troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2010 threatens to topple the Netherlands’ coalition government and undermine the U.S. mission as the Pentagon steps up operations against the Taliban. more
The Wall Street Journal February 18, 2010 WASHINGTON—Vice President Joseph Biden will begin the first push for congressional ratification of the United Nations nuclear test-ban treaty since the Clinton presidency, with a speech Thursday saying the Obama administration’s large funding request for monitoring will make tests obsolete. more