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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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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Barack Obama, July 8, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 9, 2014

Video of NATO Secretary General at the White House

By NATO

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen thanked President Barack Obama for his country’s leadership within the Alliance and strong commitment to transatlantic security during talks with the United States president at the White House

Afghanistan Economy & Business
EUCOM commander Gen. Philip Breedlove, July 1, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 8, 2014

EUCOM Chief: Time To Stop Drawdown of US Troops in Europe

By Andrew Tilghman, Defense News

The top US commander in Europe said he will probably need more troops to counter the renewed military threat from Russia that is roiling the far eastern region of Europe.

NATO Russia

Event Recap

Jul 7, 2014

NATO Secretary General Rasmussen: The West’s Insurance Premium for Security ‘Just Went Up’

With Western economies improving slowly, and with security threats evolving from Africa to East Asia, the NATO alliance will press this year for Europe to increase its defense spending “in real terms for the first time since the end of the Cold War,” Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said today. The alliance will push its […]

NATO Security & Defense
NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence logo

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2014

Seven Allies Establish NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Latvia

By NATO STRATCOM COE, Latvian Ministry of Defense, AFP

From NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence:  On 1 July, at the Supreme Allied Command Transformation HQ in Norfolk (U.S.), Latvia alongside with Estonia, Germany, Italy Lithuania, Poland, and the UK signed the Memorandums of Understanding for the establishment of the NATO StratCom Centre of Excellence in Riga

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Russian Su-27 fighter jet, March 27, 2009

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2014

Five Russian Weapons of War NATO Should Fear

By Robert Farley, National Interest

If diplomacy fails and politics push the alliance into war, these are the weapons NATO will need to worry about the most.

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Alexander Stubb when he was foreign minister, August 22, 2011

NATOSource

Jul 7, 2014

Finnish Prime Minister Still Eyes NATO Membership

By Juhana Rossi, Wall Street Journal

Finland is unlikely to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the coming years because of a lack of support among Finnish voters—despite Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea

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Webcasts

Jul 7, 2014

NATO Looking Forward: The Alliance in the Contested 21st Century

Please join us on July 7, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m for a public address by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO, who will outline his vision for the future of NATO and discuss the upcoming NATO Summit in Wales.

NATO Security & Defense
Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic and Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 25, 2014

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Jul 7, 2014

NATO Signals No New Members for the Present

By John-Thor Dahlburg, AP

Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO has been mulling how to react, but it is ruling out one option: rapid expansion.

Intelligence NATO

In the News

Jul 5, 2014

Benitez: NATO Countries are Experiencing “Enlargement Exhaustion”

By Jorge Benitez

The Associated Press quotes NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez on NATO’s decision to rule out rapid expansion:

NATO Security & Defense
The Prime Ministers of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic, Jan. 29, 2014

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Jul 3, 2014

Visegrad Countries May Turn EU Battlegroup into Permanent V4 Rapid Reaction Force

By Visegrád Group

We, the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, recognize that current security trends in Europe call for even closer regional defence cooperation and multinational programs deeply rooted in NATO and EU policies.

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