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Essays on the Alliance’s future

NATO’s seventy-fifth anniversary is a milestone in a remarkable story of reinvention, adaptation, and unity. However, as the Alliance seeks to secure its future for the next seventy-five years, it faces revanchist old rivals, escalating strategic competition, and uncertainties over the future of the rules-based international order. 

With partners and allies turning attention from celebrations to challenges, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative invited contributors to engage with the most pressing concerns ahead of the historic Washington summit and chart a path for the Alliance’s future. This series features seven essays focused on concrete issues that NATO must address at the Washington summit and five essays that examine longer-term challenges the Alliance must confront to ensure transatlantic security. 

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The Transatlantic Security Initiative, in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, shapes and influences the debate on the greatest security challenges facing the North Atlantic Alliance and its key partners.

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In the News

Jul 11, 2018

Fried Quoted in Newsweek on Trump and NATO’s Defense Spending

By Daniel Fried

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New Atlanticist

Jul 11, 2018

NATO Engages: Shoring Up the Alliance

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The opening day of NATO Engages: The Brussels Summit Dialogue was marked by passionate endorsements of the transatlantic military alliance that has been credited with giving the West its longest period of peace without a major power conflict in centuries. It also produced an attempt by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to ease the Alliance’s […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 11, 2018

Macedonian Prime Minister Celebrates NATO Invitation

By David Wemer

Zoran Zaev, the prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), celebrated his country’s potential NATO membership in Brussels on July 11 just minutes after it was announced that the bloc would invite FYROM to begin accession talks.

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In the News

Jul 11, 2018

Farkas in Politico: Putin Has Already Won

By Evelyn Farkas

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In the News

Jul 11, 2018

Wilson Quoted in the Washington Post on Trump’s Negotiating Tactics with NATO

By Damon Wilson

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In the News

Jul 11, 2018

Farkas Joins MSNBC to Discuss Trump, NATO, and Russia

By Evelyn Farkas

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In the News

Jul 11, 2018

Burrows Quoted in Axios on Trump, NATO, and Global Peace

By Matthew Burrows

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New Atlanticist

Jul 11, 2018

NATO Ministers Preach Unity, But Divisions Persist

By David Wemer

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz, and German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen stressed the importance of unity in the Alliance during a panel discussion in Brussels on July 11. Although each of the ministers implored the Alliance to find common ground on the challenges facing the bloc, divergent views […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 11, 2018

NATO’s Stoltenberg Credits Trump as Allies Increase Defense Spending

By David Wemer

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on July 11 credited US President Donald J. Trump for pushing a “clear message” that allies need to invest more in their national defense, and argued that real increases in spending have been a direct result of this push. Stoltenberg spoke at NATO Engages: The Brussels Summit Dialogue, the official […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 11, 2018

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Stands Up for NATO

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on July 11 delivered a resounding defense of NATO—the transatlantic military alliance that today grapples with external as well as internal challenges—and sought to address questions of burden sharing noting that it is the quality of the output rather than the quantity of the input that actually matters. “A lot […]

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