Atlantic Council

President Obama’s trip to Europe generated many headlines. By combining the G-20 meeting with a NATO summit and routine bilateral discussions, very few international security issues were left untouched. Among those is nuclear disarmament.

As long anticipated, North Korea test fired a Taepodong rocket hours ago, which President Obama termed "a threat to the northeast Asian region and to international peace and security."  Is that really so?

PJTV's Bill Whittle hosts a thoughtful discussion of  "NATO at 60" and whether the United States still needs the Alliance.

In a speech at Rhenus Sports Arena in Strasbourg, President Obama said America's relationship with Europe was "at a crossroads" and proclaimed, "We must renew our institutions, our alliances."

The G20 summit was marked by protests of all shapes and sizes, from marches to effigies to giant games of Monopoly in the streets.  Here is a roundup of some of these activities.

As the NATO heads of government prepare to converge on Kehl and Strasbourgh for the Alliance's 60th anniversary Summit, they're facing extreme skepticism from some heavy hitters in the security policy community.

It was major news at last week’s summit of EU leaders that German Chancellor Angela Merkel turned about on her previous opposition to EU funding for the Nabucco pipeline to bring Caspian and possibly Middle Eastern natural gas to Europe.

As widely anticipated, not much was achieved at the G20 Summit. 

Pierre Vimont is the French ambassador to the United States.  He has served in his country's foreign service for more than three decades.  I had the opportunity to get his thoughts on some key issues of interest to the Atlantic Council community.

Ross Douthat  mentions this profile of Russian President Medvedev as an interesting source of background, and I agree that it is a useful primer on Medvedev if you are not familiar with his career prior to his elevation by Putin and election, but I am instinctively wary of efforts to interpret the actions of foreign governments or to speculate about their future actions based on the biographies of their temporary heads of state.