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NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow in Tel Aviv

NATOSource

Jan 15, 2014

Turkey Reassured that NATO Missile Shield Not Designed for Israel

By Dan Williams, Reuters

Turkey has accepted assurances a planned NATO missile defense system in which it is playing a part is not designed to protect Israel as well, the alliance’s deputy secretary-general said on Wednesday.

Israel
Missile Defense

New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2014

Overblown Rhetoric Exaggerates Proliferation Risks of Japan-Turkey Nuclear Cooperation

By Jessica Varnum

The international community faces many grave nuclear proliferation challenges. Possible nuclear energy cooperation between Japan and Turkey is not one of them, although a January 8th editorial in Japan’s second most widely read newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, suggested otherwise. It  called for an “urgent rethink” of the bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement currently under consideration by […]

Japan
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Romanian soldiers and US Marines training together

NATOSource

Jan 14, 2014

US Will Keep Cutting Bases in Europe, Top General Says

By Gordon Lubold, Foreign Policy

The U.S. military will continue to close buildings and bases in Europe, the top American commander there told Foreign Policy.

Europe & Eurasia
NATO
Swedish Defense Minister Karin Enstrom and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Jan 14, 2014

Sweden Considers Broader Alliances with NATO, EU

By Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News

Recognizing that its self-defense capabilities are becoming inadequate, Sweden is shifting its strategic policy to embrace partnerships beyond its Nordic neighborhood, including NATO and the European Union.

European Union
International Organizations
Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide in Washington

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2014

Norway Concerned about Russia’s Military Modernization and Increased Military Activity in the Arctic

By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters

“I don’t think that the alliance will be irrelevant any time soon,” Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen] Soreide told Reuters.

Europe & Eurasia
Missile Defense
Dwight Eisenhower was NATO's 1st Supreme Commander, SACEUR

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2014

New Films About NATO’s First Military Commander, Dwight Eisenhower

By Allied Command Operations, NATO

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission has launched the second in a series of seven Pivotal Moment films on the Dwight D. Eisenhower E-Memorial.

NATO
Security & Defense
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Former UK Defense Minister Liam Fox

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2014

Liam Fox May Be Britain’s Candidate for NATO Secretary General

By Tim Shipman, Daily Mail

Liam Fox is being tipped as the next Secretary General of Nato more than two years after he quit the Cabinet.

NATO
Security & Defense
President Bill Clinton at the 1994 NATO Summit

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2014

US Honors Anniversary of PfP and Pledges to ‘Strengthen and Deepen’ NATO’s Partnerships

By Jen Psaki, Department of State

On January 11, 1994, the United States and the other allied nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) created the Partnership for Peace. Today marks its twentieth anniversary.

NATO
NATO Partnerships
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 23, 2013

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2014

NATO Secretary General Commemorates Twentieth Anniversary of the Partnership for Peace

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Twenty years ago today, at the Brussels Summit, NATO Heads of State and Government took a far-reaching decision: to create a Partnership for Peace with the countries of the Euro-Atlantic area.

NATO
NATO Partnerships
Cybersecurity and Stability in the Gulf

NATOSource

Jan 10, 2014

The Gulf is a Flashpoint for Cyber Conflict

By James Andrew Lewis, CSIS

Cyberattack is a new tool of national power. It provides a means of coercion, influence, and warfare.

Cybersecurity
International Organizations

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