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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Bremain vs Brexit

Feb 25, 2016

Migrant Crisis, Brexit Distracting EU from Enlargement, Says Albania’s Foreign Minister

By Ashish Kumar Sen

The migrant crisis and the debate over the United Kingdom’s future in the European Union have shifted focus away from the enlargement of the bloc and this could disrupt the process of building democratic future member states, Albania’s Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati said on February 25. “Unfortunately, the migrant crisis, coupled with other crises that […]

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In the News

Feb 23, 2016

Stefanini in La Stampa: NATO, Ukraine, Sanctions: A Decisive Year for the Czar

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In the News

Feb 23, 2016

Stefanini in La Stampa: Migrants in the Mediterranean, Two Reasons That Make NATO’s Engagement So Important

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In the News

Feb 22, 2016

Nordenman Quoted by National Defense Magazine on How NATO Can Contain Russia

By Magnus Nordenman

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In the News

Feb 22, 2016

Nordenman Quoted by High North News on US Navy Base Expansion in Iceland

By Magnus Nordenman

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, June 13, 2015

NATOSource

Feb 20, 2016

NATO Concerned over Possible Russia-Turkey Hostilities

By Spiegel

In Syria, the danger of a war between Turkey and Russia is on the rise

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Estonian troops participating in Steadfast Jazz exercise, Nov. 3, 2013

NATOSource

Feb 17, 2016

Expert on NATO Calls for Permanent Alliance Military Presence in Baltics As Hedge Against Russia Military Action

By John Grady, USNI News

A leading analyst on NATO policy called for the alliance to place a permanent military presence in Baltic member states as a hedge against a more active Russian military.

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In the News

Feb 16, 2016

Benitez Quoted by US Naval Institute News on Need for Permanent Military Presence in the Baltic States

By Jorge Benitez

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Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipil, June 8, 2015

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Feb 12, 2016

Sweden and Finland: Common Destiny or Common Diversity?

By Tomas Bertelman

More than a year ago, I presented a study commissioned by the Swedish Minister of Defense, which pointed to the growing contradictions in current Swedish security policy.

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New Atlanticist

Feb 11, 2016

Libya Remains a Weak Link in Effort to Curb Migrant Flow into Europe

By Ashish Kumar Sen

NATO deploys ships to Aegean Sea to counter human trafficking between Turkey and Greece NATO’s decision to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea in an attempt to deter the smuggling of migrants from Turkey into Greece focuses on just one aspect of the problem; to Europe’s south, in Libya, a well-established human-trafficking network continues to […]

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