LOOK BACK ON THE WASHINGTON SUMMIT


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Live commentary, authoritative analysis, and high-level events covering NATO’s Washington summit, courtesy of our experts.

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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New Atlanticist

Jul 9, 2018

NATO Engages 2018

By David Wemer

As the heads of state and government from the twenty-nine NATO member states gather in Brussels on July 11 and 12, the Atlantic Council will co-host NATO Engages: The Brussels Summit Dialogue—the official high-profile outreach effort for the Alliance’s summit.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 9, 2018

Not just a numbers game: NATO, women, and countering terrorism

By Diana De Vivo

The absence of a gender dimension in security, peace, and stability activities has forced women to sit on the sidelines of global stabilization and conflict resolution efforts.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 9, 2018

“NATO is at a Crucial Decision Point”

By GLOBSEC NATO Adaptation Team

Open letter to their Excellencies the gathered heads of state and government of the NATO nations from the GLOBSEC NATO Adaptation Team

NATO Security & Defense
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NATOSource

Jul 9, 2018

Why NATO Matters

By Editorial Board, New York Times

[M]any people — including, evidently, the president of the United States — wonder whether the alliance still has a purpose.

NATO Russia
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NATOSource

Jul 9, 2018

Ahead of Key Summit, Allies Wonder: Will NATO Survive Trump?

By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post

NATO leaders once feared President Trump wasn’t invoking the right words to convince Russia that the United States was still serious about defending Europe.

NATO Russia

Inflection Points

Jul 9, 2018

Toward a new transatlantic bargain

By Frederick Kempe

You’ve likely never heard of the Parsley Island crisis, sixteen years ago this week in the narrow waters between Morocco and Spain. So, it’s unlikely you’ve considered what its peaceful resolution says about the stakes involved the next few days in President Trump’s meeting first in Brussels with NATO leaders and thereafter with Russian President […]

NATO Politics & Diplomacy
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NATOSource

Jul 9, 2018

Denigrating NATO Weakens Trump and Strengthens Putin

By Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

President Trump will attend a summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organization national leaders this week, and the stakes are unusually high for everyone.

NATO Russia

NATOSource

Jul 9, 2018

America’s NATO Allies Are Stepping Up

By Jens Stoltenberg, Wall Street Journal

NATO was created in 1949 to ensure that none of us will ever have to live through another world war.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 8, 2018

The High Politics (and Stakes) of the NATO Summit

By Clementine G. Starling

NATO must overcome two forms of discord—US-European and intra-European—in order to ensure the future health and effectiveness of the Alliance. It is not enough to hope for mere platitudes of unity at NATO’s summit in Brussels on July 11 and 12, sentiments that European leaders may not receive from the US president. At last year’s […]

NATO Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Jul 8, 2018

Merkel: NATO Must Refocus on Russia Threat

By Deutsche Welle and Politico

From Deutsche Welle:  “The challenges for NATO have changed drastically in recent years,” Merkel said.

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