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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New Atlanticist

Dec 9, 2014

A Graphic Breakdown of the Anti-ISIL Coalition

By Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council’s Jorge Benitez and Gabriel Maletta take a closer look at which nations have joined the coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) – and what kind of support each country is providing.

NATO Security & Defense
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 1, 2014

NATOSource

Dec 8, 2014

NATO Seeks Weapons to Counter Russia’s Information War

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

A casual consumer of Russian media might conclude the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, one of the strongholds of the country’s pro-EU uprising, has been overrun by violent fascists.

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ISAF Commander General John F. Campbell, Dec. 8, 2014

NATOSource

Dec 8, 2014

US, NATO end Afghan combat command after thirteen years

By Lynne O'Donnell, AP

The U.S. and NATO closed their combat command in Afghanistan on Monday, more than 13 years after invading the country in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to target al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. . . .

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Image of planned NATO HQ

NATOSource

Dec 5, 2014

Belgian Authorities Resolve Financial Troubles Preventing Completion of New NATO HQ

By NATO

An agreement has been reached by the Belgian authorities to resolve the claim made by BAM Alliance, the general contractor responsible for the construction of the new NATO Headquarters, for additional work. NATO welcomes this agreement.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, Nov. 4, 2014

NATOSource

Dec 5, 2014

NATO and the EU Talk Over Closer Cooperation

By Stephen Fidler, Wall Street Journal

The headquarters of Brussels’ two international bureaucracies lie barely 4 miles apart, but at times in their history the distance between the two has been far greater.

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Congressman Mike Turner

NATOSource

Dec 4, 2014

Congressman Mike Turner Elected to Lead NATO Parliamentary Assembly

By Anthony Shoemaker and Jessica Wehrman, Dayton Daily News

Rep. Mike Turner is the newest president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

NATO Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 4, 2014

Herbst: Three Ways America Should Respond to the Ukraine Crisis

By John Herbst

Eurasia Center Director John Herbst cowrites for Huffington Post on on how the US ought to look to past agreements for guidance on how to respond to current Russian aggression in Ukraine:

NATO Security & Defense
AWACS: NATO's 'Eye In The Sky,' March 18, 2011

NATOSource

Dec 4, 2014

NATO Faces AWACS Fleet Shrinkage

By Tony Osborne, Aviation Week

NATO might be calling on its members to raise their defense spending, but if the alliance’s airborne early warning program is anything to go by, that message may be falling on deaf ears.

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NATOSource

Dec 3, 2014

Infographic: Details of the Coalition Fighting ISIL

By Jorge Benitez and Gabriel Maletta

Which nations are conducting air strikes in Syria, but not Iraq? Are allies conducting an equal number of the air strikes against ISIL? Which Pacific power is participating in military operations in Iraq? The following chart answers these and many more questions about the international coalition fighting ISIL in Iraq and Syria.

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Meeting of NATO foreign ministers, December 2, 2104

NATOSource

Dec 3, 2014

New NATO Force Not Ready Until 2016, Alliance to Rely on Interim Brigade

By Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

NATO will establish a prototype of a new rapid response force next year as it strives to improve its ability to deter a Russian attack, the alliance said on Tuesday.

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