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Event Recap

Jul 19, 2018

Nigerian information minster discusses US-Nigeria relations, Boko Haram

By Africa Center

On Thursday, July 19, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center hosted a roundtable discussion with the Minister of Information and Culture of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H.E. Alhaji Lai Mohammed. In his remarks, Lai Mohammed discussed Nigeria’s relationship with the United States and President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to Washington – the first Sub-Saharan African […]

Africa
English

NATOSource

Jul 18, 2018

Can NATO Allies Effectively Utilize Increases in Defense Spending?

By Andrew Clevenger, Roll Call

Decreases in NATO members’ defense budgets in the years before Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Crimea in 2014 created readiness problems in Europe just as they have in America,

Germany
NATO

In the News

Jul 18, 2018

Scholl and Morningstar in Handelsblatt Global: Nord Stream 2 takes center stage in Trump’s NATO performance

By Ellen Scholl & Richard Morningstar

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Germany
NATO

NATOSource

Jul 18, 2018

Trump Questions Whether US Troops Should Defend NATO Ally

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

President Donald Trump cast new doubt on his willingness to come to the defense of NATO allies

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Russia

New Atlanticist

Jul 18, 2018

NATO is Stronger With Montenegro

By Damon Wilson

In his interview with US President Donald J. Trump, Tucker Carlson of Fox News asked why the United States should come to the defense of Montenegro, a tiny country in the Western Balkans with a population the size of Washington, D.C., that is a NATO ally. It’s a perfectly reasonable question, with a good answer. […]

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Russia

In the News

Jul 18, 2018

Simakovsky Quoted in Newsweek on Macedonia Joining NATO

By Mark Simakovsky

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NATO
Russia

In the News

Jul 18, 2018

Wilson Quoted in Vanity Fair on the Aftermath of the NATO Summit

By Damon Wilson

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NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 18, 2018

NATO Summit a Success, For Now

By Brooks Tigner

Budgetary bombast aside, the agenda in Brussels was a political success, but the proof will be in the subsequent grunt work to produce results BRUSSELS – Despite all the contradictory signals, divergent headlines, and alarmist bombast over defense spending during NATO’s July 11-12 summit in Brussels—and there was plenty of that coming from the US […]

NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 18, 2018

Benitez Quoted in Stars and Stripes on the Aftermath of the NATO Summit

By Jorge Benitez

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NATO
Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 18, 2018

Nimmo Quoted in VOA on NATO’s Cyber Security Efforts

By Ben Nimmo

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Cybersecurity
NATO

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