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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Jun 21, 2018

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

By Aaron Stein

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In the News

Jun 19, 2018

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

By Alexander Vershbow

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and President Donald Trump, May 17, 2018 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2018

Winning on NATO: Trump Won’t Take Yes for an Answer

By Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

European governments are finally getting serious about their militaries….

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Major General Ci Guowei, Deputy Chief of the Office for International Military Cooperation led the Chinese delegation, June 11, 2018 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jun 18, 2018

NATO and China Resume Military Staff to Staff Talks

By NATO

After a three year pause NATO and China have reconvened military to military staff talks.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 17, 2018

Avoiding a NATO Train Wreck

By Frederick Kempe

This much is predictable. The world’s most successful and enduring alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is facing a potential transatlantic train wreck of American making when it meets in Brussels July 11-12, its first full-fledged summit of the Trump administration. Unless President Donald Trump shifts his thinking and actions before then, a toxic political […]

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In the News

Jun 15, 2018

Nordenman Quoted in Defense News on Macedonia and NATO

By Magnus Nordenman

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In the News

Jun 14, 2018

Braw in Defense One: NATO Needs More Big Exercises, Too

By Elisabeth Braw

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New Atlanticist

Jun 13, 2018

Macedonia and Greece Settle Twenty-Seven-Year Dispute with a New Name

By Sarah Bedenbaugh

In the midst of a news cycle dominated by the historic summit between the United States and North Korea, one might be forgiven for overlooking the news of another diplomatic triumph. On June 12, the prime ministers of Greece and Macedonia announced that the two countries had reached agreement on a deal to end their […]

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UkraineAlert

Jun 7, 2018

Ukraine’s Veterans Are a Powerful Constituency. Who Will Control Them?

By Lauren Van Metre

On February 27, Ukraine’s parliament voted to establish a new Ministry for Veterans, pending the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers. The parliament has been active on veterans’ issues, adopting more than thirty laws in the last three years to provide social services and protections. But more than twenty ministries and government departments handle veterans’ […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 6, 2018

NATO Allies Poised to Sign Off on US Plan to Deter Russian Aggression

By Brooks Tigner

BRUSSELS – The expected nod by allied defense ministers on June 7 for a new “readiness initiative” to deter aggression against NATO’s home territory will set in motion a reactive capability that the Alliance has not seen since the end of the Cold War, according to allied officials. “This is big stuff, it involves no […]

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