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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 11, 2024

Özkizilcik quoted in Middle East Eye on Erdoğan’s relations with NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

By Atlantic Council

China Defense Policy

New Atlanticist

Jun 10, 2024

Building the bridge: How to inject credibility into NATO’s promise of membership for Ukraine

By Ian Brzezinski

Ukraine’s bridge to NATO membership must be built in ways that institutionalize its integration into the Alliance’s structures—starting now.

Defense Policy Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Jun 5, 2024

After honoring D-Day, Macron and Biden embark on a diplomatic sprint for Europe’s security

By Léonie Allard

The commemoration in Normandy will be followed by the Group of Seven summit in Italy, the Switzerland peace summit for Ukraine, and the NATO Summit in Washington.

France NATO
US Navy sailors operate onboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, in the Adriatic Sea, February 2, 2022.

Issue Brief

Jun 5, 2024

A new NATO command structure

By Richard D. Hooker, Jr.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO suggest an urgent need for a revised NATO Command Structure, better suited to the security needs of allies and better organized to deter and defend in light of these new realities.

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Jun 4, 2024

Agachi in Defense News on NATO space policy

By Anca Agachi

On June 4, Transatlantic Security Initiative nonresident fellow Anca Agachi wrote an article in Defense News on NATO’s space policy and the importance of space for allied security.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

In the News

Jun 3, 2024

Zeneli in The Diplomat on the China-Russia axis

By Valbona Zeneli

On June 3, Transatlantic Security Initiative nonresident senior fellow Valbona Zeneli was intervied by The Diplomat on the China-Russia axis and NATO’s response to emerging threats.   

China Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Jun 3, 2024

Wieslander interviewed by Deutsche Welle News

On Wednesday, June 3, Anna Wieslander, Director for Northern Europe, was interviewed by Deutsche Welle News about Russia’s increasing focus on the Baltic Sea and its implications for NATO. Regarding Russia’s plan to redraw the Baltic Sea borders, Dr. Wieslander comments: “This is a classic Russian tactic. It’s part of their shadow war designed to […]

NATO Northern Europe

In the News

Jun 2, 2024

Kroenig mentioned in Associated Press on the “new axis of authoritarians”

On June 2, Matthew Kroenig, Vice President and Senior Director of the Scowcroft Center, was mentioned in Associated Press, where he spoke on the threat from the “new axis of authoritarians,” including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as those states work more closely together with overlapping interests. Moscow in particular, Kroenig said, will likely […]

NATO Security & Defense

UkraineAlert

May 28, 2024

‘The time has come’: Calls grow to allow Ukrainian strikes inside Russia

By Peter Dickinson

Pressure is building for the US and other NATO allies to lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons for Ukrainian strikes inside Russia, writes Peter Dickinson.

Conflict Defense Technologies
NATO leaders all together on stage.

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2024

Why NATO matters

By Richard D. Hooker, Jr.

The United States supports and leads NATO not out of altruism, but because it is manifestly in its interest to do so.

Crisis Management Defense Policy

Experts