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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

Jun 15, 2017

Hruby in Financial Times: African Private Equity Must Rise to Job Creation Challenge

By Aubrey Hruby

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In the News

Jun 14, 2017

Nordenman in Defense One: At BALTOPS, It’s Back to Prepping for High-End Warfare

By Magnus Nordenman

Read the full article here.

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President Donald Trump, May 29, 2017

NATOSource

Jun 13, 2017

Trump’s Impromptu Commitment to Defend NATO Allies

By Paul Handley, AFP

US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States remained committed to NATO’s mutual defense pledge, after he failed to endorse it in a speech in Brussels last month.

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In the News

Jun 12, 2017

Wilson Joins POLITICO’s The Global POLITICO Podcast to Discuss Montenegro’s Accession to NATO

By Damon Wilson

Listen to the full interview here.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 12, 2017

NATO’s Stoltenberg Sees US Commitment to Article 5

By Kelly Russo

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on June 5 affirmed the United States’ commitment to the Alliance’s collective defense provisions, a commitment US President Donald J. Trump publicly and controversially omitted making at a meeting with NATO leaders in Brussels in May. In a Facebook Live interview with Damon Wilson, executive vice president for programs and […]

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NATOSource

Jun 9, 2017

Trump Discovers Article 5 After Disastrous NATO Visit

By Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy

At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO’s bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday. “Absolutely, I’d be committed to Article 5,” he said Friday

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NATOSource

Jun 8, 2017

Putin Vows Military Response to ‘Eliminate NATO Threat’ If Sweden Joins US-Led Alliance

By Damien Sharkov, Newsweek

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed deep opposition to the idea of Sweden joining NATO, calling its potential membership of the U.S.-led alliance a “threat” that would need to be “eliminated.”

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NATOSource

Jun 7, 2017

The 27 Words Trump Wouldn’t Say To NATO

By Susan Glasser, Politico

It was a simple sentence. Just 27 words. “We face many threats, but I stand here before you with a clear message: the U.S. commitment to the NATO alliance and to Article 5 is unwavering.”

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NATOSource

Jun 7, 2017

Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech

By Susan Glasser, Politico

When President Donald Trump addressed NATO leaders during his debut overseas trip little more than a week ago, he surprised and disappointed European allies

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New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2017

70 Years Later, George C. Marshall’s Values Are Still Relevant

By Stephen R. Grand

It may be an awkward moment for a birthday, but the Marshall Plan turned seventy on June 5. Designed to give Europe a hand up rather than a handout following the devastation of World War II, the Marshall Plan became the cornerstone for the emergence of a US-led, rules-based order that has enhanced Europe’s and […]

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