March 2003
Putting NATO Back Together Again
by Sean Kay
"NATO's new enlargement will further complicate the workings of an alliance that is already politically unmanageable, militarily dysfunctional, and strategically irrelevant."

March 2003
Climate Change Blues: Why the United States and Europe Just Can't Get Along
by Joshua W. Busby
"Although the dispute about climate change is overshadowed by the strain in European-American relations concerning war with Iraq, it may have been a factor in the growing level of distrust between the United States and Europe. Indeed, the dispute over global warming may mask a larger concern."

March 2003
Bringing Turkey into Europe
by Mujeeb R. Khan and M. Hakan Yavuz
"While the goal of earning EU membership has been central to the recent push to implement significant political and legal reforms in Turkey, it still remains to be seen whether Turkey's Muslim heritage, large population, and economic underdevelopment will remain immovable obstacles to full membership. It is now clear that this is a decision that can no longer be indefinitely postponed by Brussels or Ankara."

March 2003
The Islamist Challenge in Kosova
by Isa Blumi
"Even as Western societies worry about the 'rise of Islamic fundamentalism,' the international community's ill-conceived policies for Kosova's rural Muslim population may prove to be directly responsible for the production of Europe's own Taliban."

March 2003
For Oil and Empire? Rethinking War with Iraq
by Michael T. Klare
As part of our occasional post-September 11 series on terrorism, contributing editor Michael Klare examines the motives behind America's decision to make Iraq a central objective in the war on terrorism. "If concerns about weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the export of democracy do not explain the administration's determination to oust Saddam Hussein, what does? The answer [can be found in] the pursuit of oil and the preservation of America's status as the paramount world power."

March 2003
Europe Enlarged, America Detached?
by Simon Serfaty
"September 11 should be a catalyst for a renewal of the West as a community of action that is shaped by interests that are common even when they are not always equally shared. What the West needs, and must seek in and beyond the EU and NATO-the two central institutions that comprise it-is more, not less, integration."