Atlantic Council

The current crisis in China over tainted milk products, including the furious public reaction inside the country, reminds us how hard it is to govern 1.3 billion. It is clearly against the law in China to put dangerous additives into food products.

On March 5th, the Program in Transatlantic Relations hosted a luncheon discussion of the report "Enhancing Democracy Assistance," a joint publication by Columbia University's Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and the Atlantic Council of the United States.

This report recognizes that democracy assistance is essential to the promotion of US foreign policy and global interests, and offers political and technical recommendations in order to enhance democracy assistance.

Aleksander Kwasniewski, president of Poland from 1995 to 2005, spoke to an overflow crowd at the Atlantic Council on the subject of "Electoral Drama in Poland, Ukraine and Russia." While dismissing the notion that these are truly "dramas," arguing that they are merely normal events in an evolving political situation, he acknowledged that the outcomes of all three elections a

Aleksander Kwasniewski, president of Poland from 1995 to 2005, spoke to an overflow crowd at the Atlantic Council on the subject of "Electoral Drama in Poland, Ukraine and Russia." While dismissing the notion that these are truly "dramas," arguing that they are merely normal events in an evolving political situation, he acknowledged that the outcomes of all three elections are very important, indeed, not only for the countries involved but for all of Europe.