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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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New Atlanticist

Mar 30, 2016

Poland’s President Seeks Stronger NATO Presence in Europe’s East

By Ashish Kumar Sen

‘Real deterrence means real presence,’ says Polish President Andrzej Duda Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, wants an enhanced NATO presence—in the form of troops as well as infrastructure—in Central and Eastern Europe to deter Russian aggression, but said his government does not want to isolate Russia or return to the Cold War. Noting Russia’s military buildup […]

European Union International Organizations

In the News

Mar 30, 2016

Brzezinski Joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to Discuss Trump’s Comments on NATO and Poland’s Relationships with NATO

By Ian Brzezinski

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In the News

Mar 30, 2016

Benitez Joins NPR’s All Things Considered to Discuss US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s Stance on NATO

By Jorge Benitez

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Donald Trump, Feb. 10, 2011

NATOSource

Mar 29, 2016

Trumping NATO: Candidate Would Accelerate a US Retreat Begun Under Obama

By Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

Mr. [Donald] Trump has a stream-of-unconsciousness way of speaking, so it isn’t clear whether he knows that NATO spent a decade fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, before President Obama pulled up stakes on the mission.

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Bremain vs Brexit

Mar 25, 2016

A Terrorist Attack on NATO’s Doorstep

By Stefano Stefanini

The March 22 terrorist attacks on Brussels—in the heart of the European Union’s citadel—are an attack on all of Europe. Belgium has become a frontline state in a war about which Europe is in denial. The European Union, established to prevent war from ever again breaking out in Europe, is loath to call the terrorist […]

European Union International Organizations
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and French President Francois Hollande, March 2, 2015

NATOSource

Mar 25, 2016

France and NATO: Joyeux Anniversaire?

By Leo Michel

Champagne corks won’t be popping across Paris on April 4 to celebrate the seventh anniversary of France’s return, after a 43-year absence, to NATO’s military structures.

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Russian ballistic missile submarine

NATOSource

Mar 25, 2016

Russia’s Growing Threat to Norway and the North Atlantic

By Jacob Bojesson, Daily Caller

While much of Russia’s aggression has been targeted at Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, Norway’s geopolitical location, and border to Russia, continues to define its defense planning.

NATO Northern Europe

In the News

Mar 24, 2016

Farkas Quoted by the Associated Press on NATO’s Strategy Against ISIS

By Evelyn Farkas

Read the full article here.

European Union International Organizations

In the News

Mar 24, 2016

Stefanini Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on Brussels Terrorist Attacks and the Future of European Security

By Stefano Stefanini

Read the full article here.

European Union International Organizations

Event Recap

Mar 24, 2016

A Threat to National Security

By Eurasia Center

“People in Russia Prefer not to talk about Kadyrov,” said Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman People’s Freedom Party (PARNAS), at the Atlantic Council on March 24, 2016. Mr. Yashin is seeking to break that taboo with his new report, “A Threat to National Security.” The report paints a terrifying portrait of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov […]

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