Vol. 9 No. 1-2, January 2008

Index

• Transatlantic solidarity starts at home.
• Transatlantic convergence passenger data questions.
• Cyber War I: Estonia attacked from Russia.
• NATO caveats can be made to work better for the alliance.
• Rome: Italy's malaise: not so Dolce Vita.
• Faraway Afghanistan brings home tensions among allies.
• The declining dollar--symptom and symbol of U.S. financial negligence.
• Sense and nonsense about European security policy.
• Madrid: new political mold for old (Catholic) Spain.
• "Shock therapy" worked for the economies of the post-communist countries.
• The real questions about sovereign wealth funds: a roundtable discussion.
• Berlin: corruption index: Europe comparatively clean.
• A flat playing field can spread Western innovation.
• London: some Sharia law in Britain is "unavoidable," says Anglican Church head.
• Turkey's islamic party sees advantage in EU bid.
• New York: record U.S. jail numbers dwarf rates in Europe.
• Misreading Berlin ... in the lead into the Iraq war.
• Kosovo: it IS a real geopolitical precedent.
• Washington: U.S. government cancels clean-coal experiment.
• Poland's new government seeks solidarity, not provocation.
• Washington: Web startups pose risk to job numbers on both sides of Atlantic.
• Saving the Arctic, now.
• Washington: global warming not an issue in U.S. election campaign.
• An emergency coordination center is needed for a new frontier.
• Four "poverty traps" are part of conundrum for foreign aid.
• A talk with Richard Descoings, head of Sciences Po in Paris: Europe is losing out in global competition among universities.
• Washington: city and symbol--or neither?
• Fugitive Serbian war criminals and the West.
• Politically incorrect tales of the EU bureaucracy.
• New Delhi: EU-India trade talks: "hell to pay" for U.S. companies?
• Writer Ryszard Kapuscinski: an optimist in the heart of darkness.