LOOK BACK ON THE WASHINGTON SUMMIT


Atlantic Council at the NATO Summit in Washington

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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NATO and Swedish aircraft participating in BALTOPS 2016 (photo: Airman Erin Babis/USAF)

NATOSource

Jun 28, 2018

For the First Time in Its History, NATO Releases Joint Air Power Strategy

By NATO

NATO Joint Air Power (JAP) plays a key role in supporting the accomplishment of NATO’s three core tasks – Collective Defence, Crisis Management and Cooperative Security

Cybersecurity NATO

In the News

Jun 27, 2018

Vershbow Quoted in Foreign Policy on NATO Summit

By Alexander Vershbow

Read the full article here.

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Jun 27, 2018

Vershbow Quoted in CBC on NATO Summit and Trump-Putin Summit

By Alexander Vershbow

Read the full article here.

NATO Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, July 7, 2017 (photo: Office of the President of Russia)

NATOSource

Jun 27, 2018

NATO Expert: Allies Worried About Likely Trump-Putin Meeting

By Andrew Restuccia and David Herszenhorn, Politico

For Putin, the best outcome of the summit is a tacit — or even explicit — endorsement from the American president

NATO Russia
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, May 29, 2018 (photo: Department of State)

NATOSource

Jun 26, 2018

Secretary of State Pompeo: Despite Current Rift, Alliance Between US and Europe Is Strong

By Michael Pompeo and Elise Labott, Department of State

Excerpts from CNN’s Elise Labott interview with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, June 24, 2018.

NATO Russia

New Atlanticist

Jun 26, 2018

Europe Beyond Trump

By Frederick Kempe

Seventy years ago this week, the Soviet Union blockaded access to West Berlin in an effort to score an early win in the first major crisis of the Cold War. What the Kremlin hadn’t expected was an unbending United States, which, with its UK allies, launched the Berlin Airlift, or “Operation Vittles.”

European Union International Organizations

In the News

Jun 26, 2018

Wilson Joins Defense & Aerospace Report to Discuss US Strategy for the 2018 NATO Summit

By Damon Wilson

Watch the full discussion here.

NATO Security & Defense
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, June 21, 2018 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jun 22, 2018

NATO Chief: Europe and North America Need to Stay United – Now More than Ever

By Jens Stoltenberg, Guardian

“I believe that in the North Atlantic treaty lies the best, if not the only hope of peace.”

NATO Security & Defense

Uncategorized

Jun 21, 2018

Stein Quoted in CNBC on Turkey’s Purchase of a Russian Air Defense System

By Aaron Stein

NATO Russia

In the News

Jun 19, 2018

Vershbow in RealClearWorld: NATO Can Help Itself by Pulling Ukraine Closer Now

By Alexander Vershbow

Read the full article here.

NATO Security & Defense

Experts

Events