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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French Mistral class warship Dixmude, July 14, 2011

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Dec 19, 2014

Mistral Mysteries

By Jeff Lightfoot, American Interest

To most American and European observers, Hollande’s reluctance to cancel the Mistral sale was incomprehensible.

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Russian sailors in front of the Mistral-class helicopter carrier Vladivostok, Nov. 25, 2014

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Dec 19, 2014

Russian Sailors Leaving France Without Mistral Warship

By Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton, AP

Hundreds of Russian sailors pulled out of a French port Thursday, bearing perfumes for their loved ones but lacking the controversial bounty they came for: a 1-billion-euro, French-built warship

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Estonian soldier participating in Steadfast Jazz exercise, Nov. 2, 2013

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Dec 18, 2014

Are the Baltic Republics Serious About Defense?

By Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute

All three Baltic governments are going to great lengths to highlight their alleged seriousness about defense, but the actual data fail to support the propaganda.

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove in Weisbaden, Germany, Nov. 4, 2014

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Dec 18, 2014

SACEUR Examines the New NATO

By Philip M. Breedlove, Three Swords Magazine

If there was any doubt of the relevance of NATO before now, the last few months have cleared that up and reinforced the need for our essential core tasks: Collective Defense, Cooperative Security and Crisis Management.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Dec. 15, 2014

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Dec 16, 2014

Prime Minister Yatsenyuk: Ukraine Considering New Push for NATO Membership

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

Ukraine’s prime minister on Monday called for more NATO support to reform its military as the country’s crisis with Russia has given new life to a once abandoned effort to eventually join the U.S.-led alliance.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Dec. 1 2014

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Dec 15, 2014

NATO Says Russian Air Force Jets Posing Risk to Aviation in Baltic

By Reuters

NATO accused Russia of posing a danger to civil aviation in the Baltic region after Stockholm protested over a Russian air force jet it said had flown too close to an airliner and had turned off one of its location instruments.

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Russian intelligence aircraft Ilyushin Il-20M

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Dec 15, 2014

Scandinavians Warn Russia After Air Near-Miss

By Richard Milne, Financial Times

Russia’s ambassadors to Denmark and Sweden have been summoned to hear complaints that lives were endangered in a near-miss involving an airliner and a Russian military aircraft.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, Dec. 9, 2014

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Dec 15, 2014

Secretary General Welcomes Jordan’s Decision to Join NATO Response Force

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

Jordan has contributed to different operations together with other NATO Allies and we are very grateful for that.

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NATO and Gulf leaders meeting in Qatar, Dec. 11, 2014

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Dec 12, 2014

NATO Seeks to Deepen Cooperation with Gulf Partners

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

For 10 years, NATO’s relations with the Gulf partners have grown deeper and stronger. And this is good, because the more we cooperate, the safer we will be.

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Former SACEUR, Adm. James Stavridis, Nov. 14, 2014

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Dec 12, 2014

Former Commander Urges NATO to Send Arms to Ukraine

By Julian Borger, Guardian

A former commander of Nato in Europe has called for the alliance to send arms and military advisers to Ukraine to help it fight Moscow-backed separatists.

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