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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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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, April 23, 2015

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Apr 27, 2015

A Challenge in the South for NATO

By Jim Hoagland, Washington Post

[T]he turmoil sweeping the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean today threatens to transform Europe’s strategic outlook on security matters.

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NATO Headquarters in Brussels, May 12, 2008

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Apr 22, 2015

Five Ways to Reboot NATO

By James Stavridis, Politico

1. Prepare for cyber conflict…. More emphasis should be placed on operational preps for cyber conflict–not just the policy work that occurs at the NATO Cyber Center in Tallinn.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, May 28, 2010

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Apr 21, 2015

Turkey Shifts Away From West on Defense

By Emre Peker, Wall Street Journal

Ankara has recently moved to diminish Turkey’s military dependence on the West, including last month inaugurating rocket testing and a radar technologies facilities.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, April 23, 2013

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Apr 20, 2015

A War of Values With Russia

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Project Syndicate

In the face of a massive Russian propaganda assault, the West must continue to stand up for Ukraine, as well as for Georgia and NATO members like Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Chairman of Finland's Center Party Juha Sipilä

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Apr 17, 2015

NATO Membership Now a Hot Topic in Finland

By Richard Milne, Financial Times

Four years ago, when Finland’s current government came to power, Nato membership was deliberately ruled out.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 9, 2015

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Apr 17, 2015

President Vladimir Putin’s Dangerous Moves

By New York Times Editorial Board

Even for Mr. Putin, the recent nuclear threats have set a new benchmark for hostility in the conflict he has ignited with the West.

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Apr 14, 2015

The Balkan Piece of the Putin Puzzle

By Stephen Blank

While the Russian threat to Poland and the Baltic States has sparked justified anxiety, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperial adventure is just as much of a threat to the Balkans.  Moscow is putting on a full-court press—using energy exports, information warfare, trade, arms sales, and efforts to obtain military bases in Cyprus, Montenegro and Serbia—to […]

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Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende

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Apr 13, 2015

Hungary Increasing Its Defense Budget

By Hungary Today and Debating Europe

From Hungary Today:  [Defense Minister Csaba] Hende said the outstanding performance of the Hungarian armed forces in international missions must continue.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, May 29, 2014

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Apr 13, 2015

Russia Concerned Finland and Sweden Moving Closer To NATO

By YLE and Helsinki Times

From YLE:  The Russian Foreign Ministry has written an article on its website condemning a Nordic minister declaration that appeared in the Norwegian paper Aftenposten last Thursday.

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Russia's Ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko

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Apr 10, 2015

NATO Reduces Size of Russian Delegation After Internal Reports of Espionage

By Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

For a year after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization cut back its cooperation with Russia as punishment for the country’s incursions into Ukraine, Russia’s NATO mission has seemed curiously impervious to the deteriorating ties.

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