Central Europe Digest
Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Time to Reaffirm NATO Solidarity

2 August 2010

Kori Schake at the Hoover Institution looks at the future of tactical nuclear weapons on the European continent.
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Wasting America’s Soft Power? Conflating Allies with Partners is Faulty Policy

2 August 2010

CEPA Senior Fellow Edward Lucas considers the recent revival of the Community of Democracies and the cross-currents in America’s democracy promotion strategy.
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Poland’s Future: Thriving in the European Union

2 August 2010

Dietmar Nietan, a Member of the Committee on Affairs of the European Union in the German Bundestag, examines the “Europeanization” of Polish foreign policy and its roots in U.S. support for wider EU integration.
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Publications
Keeping New Allies: An Assessment of U.S. Policy in Central Europe
15 July 2010

One year after the release by Central European leaders of “An Open Letter to the Obama Administration,” CEPA has issued the findings of its Expert Working Group, which assesses the health and trajectory of U.S. relations with Central Europe.
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Issue Brief No. 113: The Slovak Elections: Bratislava Wakes up on the ‘Right’ Side of the Bed
21 June 2010

CEPA's Robert Kron examines the foreign policy options confronting the center-right government of Iveta Radičová, soon to be Slovakia’s first female prime minister.
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Programs in Focus
Keeping New Allies

The Keeping New Allies program at CEPA is the first initiative of its kind to holistically assess the health and trajectory of U.S. relations with the young democracies of Central Europe. By evaluating U.S. efforts at improving transatlantic ties with Central Europe, CEPA will work to strengthen public, policymaker and expert community awareness about the need to maintain and strengthen America’s engagement in the strategically vital Central European region.
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The U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum

The U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum at CEPA is a bipartisan, multi-year, eleven-nation Expert Forum that brings together mid-career policy specialists and practitioners from the United States and Central Europe to encourage innovative, forward-looking strategic thinking and planning about the Central European region and its partnership with the United States.
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Newsroom
CEPA Unveils Report on U.S. Alliances in Central Europe
15 July 2010

Findings of high-level Working Group issued on one-year anniversary of “Open Letter.” Full press release available.
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CEPA In the News: Czech Elections
1 June 2010

CEPA cited in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungon on the results of the Czech parliamentary elections (in German).
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