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Robert Nolan is an editor at the Foreign Policy Association and producer of the Great Decisions in Foreign Policy television series on PBS,Air Max 95 Soldes. You can follow him on Twitter @robert_nolan
As the European economy continues to tank, I'm often asked what the United States can do to help its friends across the Atlantic aside from the financial advice and moral support offered by our leaders in recent years.This week, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius,Air Max 2009 Soldes, one of the foremost thinkers on U.S. foreign policy, penned a column about the idea of that provides at least one concrete answer.Now is absolutely the time to begin discussion of renewing the transatlantic relationship with a greater focus on strengthening economies in both Europe and here at home.After all,Ugg Classic Tall Femme, the United States and Europe account for nearly half of the entire world's GDP, 40 percent of the world's trade,Chaussures Air Max Greef, and together are still responsible for the security architecture that keeps the global economy moving.

"One of the ideas I'm quite taken with is the notion of an economic NATO, or a NATO that looks at more economic elements because if there is a euro zone crisis, it's a NATO crisis,Chaussures Air Max 2012, if there is a debt crisis it's going to affect our security,Air Max 90 Femme," Fred Kempe of the Atlantic Council told me in an interview on NATO in the 21st century for the upcoming season of . "So I think that you just have to look at the challenges coming at us much more through an economic and a security prism."
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The idea has been bouncing around for some time and is a foreign policy goal that both Democrats and Republicans could easily rally support for.Indeed,Chaussures Air Max 24-7, writing on the Atlantic Council web site, former Obama National Security Adviser General James Jones between the United States and its European allies could stimulate job growth and create, Jones and his colleague Tom Donohue reckon, about $170 billion in the next five years through the elimination of tariffs alone.According to Ignatius,lululemon outlet, the Obama administration is serious about its pursuit of this goal.
Notable figures within the Republican establishment,Chaussures Air Max LTD, which has called for the creation of more free trade agreements, are also likely to be on board.An economic NATO also bolsters their case for a widening of the NATO umbrella to the allies of the Asia Pacific that are so critical to the world economy.Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,Bottes Ugg Classic Mini, who also served as U.S. ambassador to NATO,Ugg Bailey Button Triplet Femme, told Great Decisions that the alliance should partner "with other free thinking countries,Air Max 2013 Soldes, other free political systems, and other free economic systems