Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

NATO Head Policy Planner: Multi-Polarity is Full-Blown and Demands ‘Strategic Flexibility’

By Megan Poole

Fabrice Pothier Proposes a New Posture for NATO in an Era of Global Competition The arch of crisis from West Africa, through the Sahel, and across the Middle East to Central Asia is broadening and intensifying daily, according to a senior NATO official. Overlapping this arch of crisis is an arch of “unstable deterrence,” as […]

Agenda: Nato in an Era of Global Competition

NATO in an Era of Global Competition This event took place on June 25, 2014. This eighteen-month effort, a joint project of the Atlantic Council and the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, aims to define the role of NATO and the broader transatlantic community in an era of emerging security challenges, global power shifts, and new […]

Predicting the Next Crisis

At the Atlantic Council’s NATO in an Era of Global Competition conference, Jill Dougherty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and formerly of CNN, introduced a pressing question on the forefront of transatlantic policymakers’ minds: “What is the next crisis, and is NATO equipped to deal with it?” Juri Luik, Ambassador of Estonia to […]

Defending the Borders: Reassurance, Dissuasion, and Collective Defense

Leading experts on NATO’s traditional tools of reassurance, dissuasion, and deterrence gathered at NATO in an Era of Global Competition to address the implications of Russia’s continuing destabilization of Ukraine for European security and to assess the West’s response to this crisis.

Luncheon Conversation: The United States’ Future Role in European Security

The Atlantic Council’s NATO in an Era of Global Competition conference welcomed Derek Chollet, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs at the US Department of Defense, for a luncheon conversation on the United States’ Future Role in European Security. The conversation, moderated by the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Senior Fellow Ian […]

Here’s How NATO Can Open a Path to Membership for Georgia

By Edward P. Joseph and Mamuka Tsereteli

Amid Ukraine Crisis, US Should Push to Remove an Obstacle Mae West once said that “an ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises.” For Georgians, to whom NATO promised eventual membership in the alliance back in 2008, truer words have never been spoken. NATO’s standard procedure is to require candidate member states to […]