AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
'No, We Ain't Dead'.(Brief Article)(Interview)
Interview with NATO Secretary General George Robertso
Ever since the end of the cold war, NATO has been trying to adapt to changing times and carve out a new mission for itself. Then came September 11. Suddenly, the alliance was on the sidelines as the United States went its own way and all but ignored Europe. NATO now finds itself in the midst of a crisis of identity. Is it a bona fide military alliance? Or will it become a mere political talking shop? NATO Secretary General George Robertson met with NEWSWEEK's Stryker McGuire and Nicholas Fiorenza last week in his Brussels office to discuss NATO's future. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: Lord Robertson, we thought we wouldn't ask you your favorite question: Is NATO dead? You've been asked that a couple of times.
ROBERTSON: [Laughs.] Yeah, I know.
But you're here; the buildings are still standing.
And people are working to the exhaustion point. No, we ain't dead... There is a lot of nervousness around Europe today because of the lack of predictability and the rise of irrationality. An animal-rights protester allegedly killing a guy with right-wing views in the Netherlands doesn't fit into rationality. Macedonia lives with its ethnic mix of Slavs and Albanians as the best example of tranquillity in the former Yugoslavia--and then explodes almost overnight last February. An unstable world with irrational forces in many ways needs a NATO more than it ever did.
You are evolving?
- Dole Food Co. Inc. Announces Reaction to United States Trade Representative's...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 13, 2001 700+ words
...Zoellick, the United States Trade Representative...block the European Union's...believes that the United States Trade Representative...blocked the European Union from...between the United States Trade Representative and the European Union Trade...
- Finding common ground: competing US and European interests. (Perspectives on...
- Magazine article from: Harvard International Review Tucker, David January 1, 2003 700+ words
...rift between the United States and Europe is...provides. The United States has fundamental...disagreements with European states inevitable...from Mars and Europeans are from Venus...century, the United States had emerged as...
- Why doesn't the United States have a European-style welfare state?(Statistical...
- Magazine article from: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Alesina, Alberto Glaeser, Edward Sacerdote, Bruce September 22, 2001 700+ words
...formation of the United States as a federation...stability of the United States over more than...uprooted the old European monarchies...organization of the United States--in particular...In contrast, Europeans overwhelmingly...
- Perpetuating the rift: Joaquin Roy reviews Allies at Odds? The United States...
- Magazine article from: Harvard International Review Roy, Joaquin September 22, 2004 700+ words
...Allies at Odds? The United States and the European Union will certainly...chapter. Areas where the United States and the European Union show contrasting...Ban Treaty. While the United States and the European Union had differing...
- Does the United States have a European policy?
- Magazine article from: The National Interest Baker, Gerard December 22, 2003 700+ words
...Europe cost the United States more in blood...growing number of European states in which...in a pan-European identity based...spectacle of Europeans coming together...founding of the European Economic Community...formation of the United States of Western...
- Corporate governance issues: United States and the European Union.
- Magazine article from: Houston Journal of International Law Shu-Acquaye, Florence March 22, 2007 700+ words
...implication for the United States. Not surprisingly, the European Union has been...governance trends in the United States. For example, the European Commission (the...forth. (4) The European Union and the United States have identified...
- United States condemns European Commission's traceability proposals.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: Food Chemical News Clapp, Stephen January 21, 2002 700+ words
...adopted by the European Parliament and...Page 8). The United States said the traceability...countries, the United States asked, "When...proposal would weaken European consumer confidence...food supply, the United States said it "does...
- No more whining about geographical indications: assessing the 2005 agreement...
- Magazine article from: Houston Journal of International Law Rose, Brian March 22, 2007 700+ words
...Intellectual Property Rights D. United States and European Community Bilateral Wine...B. The Future of the United States-European Community Trade in Wine...March 10, 2006, the United States and the European Community entered into...
- What Do Europeans Like and Dislike about the United States? New five-country...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 24, 2004 700+ words
...attitudes to the United States today. When...five largest European countries think of the United States, they tend...majorities of Europeans have negative...up to the United States, its freedoms...the five European countries...of these Europeans hold ...
- Why environmental liability regimes in the United States, the European...
- Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Larson, Eric Thomas March 1, 2005 700+ words
...sites. Regulators in the United States, the European Community, and Japan...pays principle in the United States, the European Community, and Japan...influenced and encouraged the United States, the European Community, and Japan...
Source: HighBeam Research, 'No, We Ain't Dead'.(Brief Article)(Interview)