LOOK BACK ON THE WASHINGTON SUMMIT


Atlantic Council at the NATO Summit in Washington

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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Finland's Defense Minister Carl Haglund

NATOSource

Jan 27, 2014

Finnish Defense Minister: EU will Never Become Europe’s Primary Defense Forum

By Jorge Benitez, Atlantic Council

During his trip to Washington to meet with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Finnish Defense Minister Carl Haglund sat down for an exclusive interview with Director of NATOSource Jorge Benitez.

Europe & Eurasia European Union
Finnish Defense Minister Carl Haglund

NATOSource

Jan 25, 2014

Finland’s Defense Minister on Regional Defense Cooperation and the Transatlantic Link

By Carl Haglund, Ministry of Defense of Finland

I would like to begin my remarks by highlighting the two key security partnerships that Finland has: the strong bilateral relationship with the United States and the active partnership we have with the Atlantic Alliance.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey

NATOSource

Jan 24, 2014

US Chief of Defense: NATO Examining Threats to its Southern Flank

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service

The NATO chiefs of defense “talked a little bit about today, a little bit about tomorrow, and a little bit about 10 years from now,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [Gen. Martin E. Dempsey] said as he returned to Washington today from alliance meetings in Brussels.

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2014

Vershbow: European Allies Moving Too Slowly to Address Defense Capabilities Gap in NATO

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

[W]e need NATO. The European Allies need NATO; but so do Canada and the United States. We all need a proven, permanent framework in which we can discuss these issues, find a common strategy, and act upon the decisions we take.

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NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2014

NATO-Backed Project Explores Legal Options To Respond to Cyberattacks

By Julian Hale, Defense News

Scholars involved in a project sponsored by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn will meet in February to consider what options governments have, under international law, to respond to cyberattacks from other countries.

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Allies concerned about a diminished US global presence

NATOSource

Jan 23, 2014

Get Ready, the Indispensable Americans are Pulling Back

By Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

[T]he most important emerging theme in world politics is America’s slow retreat from its role as global policeman.

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Event Recap

Jan 23, 2014

Finland & NATO: Strategic Cooperation

As Arctic ice recedes the world increasingly eyes the area for natural resources and maritime shipping lanes. NATO’s members and partners in the region are strategically poised to influence the region as it moves from tundra to territory, as militaries come to view the Arctic in a strategic context and various militaries increase their presence […]

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New Zealand frigate HMNZS Te Mana

NATOSource

Jan 22, 2014

New Zealand Joins NATO’s Counter-Piracy Operation

By NATO

Following a formal exchange of letters signed Tuesday (21 January 2014) between NATO and the New Zealand Government, the Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS TE MANA is set to join the Alliance’s Operation Ocean Shield on 23 January

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RAF Typhoon

NATOSource

Jan 22, 2014

NATO Project May Provide Allied Air Forces with ‘Plug and Play’ Precision Munitions

By Julan Hale, Defense News

Development of a NATO standard allowing aircraft from different nations to use precision-guided munitions (PGMs) from various sources and countries could reach a draft memorandum of understanding this year.

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NATO's planned headquarters

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2014

New NATO Headquarters in Financial Trouble

By Fidelius Schmid and Christoph Schult, Spiegel

NATO is building a new headquarters for one billion euros. But the construction consortium is in financial difficulties and the project is at risk of being halted.

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