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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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In the News

May 25, 2017

Benitez Quoted by the Guardian About Trump’s Controversial Remarks to NATO Leaders

By Jorge Benitez

Read the full article here.

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In the News

May 25, 2017

Wieslander in Euractiv: Beyond the Article 5 Backlash—What Really Happened with Trump and NATO

By Anna Wieslander

Read the full article here.

NATO Security & Defense

Issue Brief

May 23, 2017

NATO and Trump

By Fabrice Pothier, Alexander Vershbow

The case for a new transatlantic bargain.

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Issue Brief

May 23, 2017

NATO and Trump

By Fabrice Pothier and Alexander Vershbow

The case for a new transatlantic bargain.

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May 16, 2017

Trump Expected to Shake Up NATO Summit

By Anne K. Walters, DPA

US President Donald Trump made very clear his presidency marked a new era of “America First,”

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In the News

May 15, 2017

Benitez Quoted by Foreign Policy on Trump’s Upcoming NATO Meeting

By Jorge Benitez

Read the full article here.

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May 15, 2017

NATO Frantically Tries to Trump-Proof President’s First Visit

By Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy

NATO is scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting to avoid taxing President Donald Trump’s notoriously short attention span.

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NATOSource

May 12, 2017

Trump: NATO Receiving Billions More from Allies, ‘All Because of Me’

By Donald Trump, Time

You know we’ve gotten billions of dollars more in NATO that we’re getting. All because of me.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 10, 2017

The Avoidable Return of Geopolitics in the Balkans

By Florian Bieber, Dane Taleski and Nikola Dimitrov

Political crises, regional tensions, and the decline of democracy point to an increased risk of conflict and instability in the Balkans. Peace, democratic reform, and stability in the Balkans have been guaranteed for the past two decades by the prospect of European Union (EU) membership and by US and NATO security guarantees. Both pillars of […]

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May 10, 2017

Trump Asking NATO to Join Coalition Fighting Against ISIS

By Matthias Gebauer and Peter Müller, Spiegel

In Donald Trump’s eyes, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was actually the head of an alliance that history had made superfluous.

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