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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.

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Jul 3, 2014

Amid Ukraine Crisis, Can US and NATO Buttress Support for Georgia?

By James Rupert

As Putin Faces Added Crises, NATO Can Push Georgia’s Membership Bid, Analysts Say  As the United States and NATO ponder how best to support a democratizing Ukraine against Russia’s ongoing attacks, the crisis over Ukraine has raised the stakes on an adjacent issue – whether NATO should accept Georgia’s eager request to join the alliance. […]

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Jul 2, 2014

Here’s How NATO Can Open a Path to Membership for Georgia

By Edward P. Joseph and Mamuka Tsereteli

Amid Ukraine Crisis, US Should Push to Remove an Obstacle Mae West once said that “an ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises.” For Georgians, to whom NATO promised eventual membership in the alliance back in 2008, truer words have never been spoken. NATO’s standard procedure is to require candidate member states to […]

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Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 24, 2014

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Jul 2, 2014

If NATO Delays Path to Georgia’s Membership, What Is the Alternative?

By Tedo Japaridze, New Atlanticist

In the same week that the European Union signed an association agreement with Georgia on June 27, NATO officials meeting in Brussels decided not to offer the country a formal plan this year to achieve membership in the alliance.

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Jun 30, 2014

If NATO Delays Path to Georgia’s Membership, What Is the Alternative?

By Tedo Japaridze

Alliance’s September Summit Must Offer ‘Concrete,’ Not ‘Token’ Help as Georgia Faces Russia In the same week that the European Union signed an association agreement with Georgia on June 27, NATO officials meeting in Brussels decided not to offer the country a formal plan this year to achieve membership in the alliance. If ‘no’ is […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 28, 2014

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Jun 26, 2014

Why Expanding NATO would Deter Russia, Stabilize Europe

By Tomas Valasek and Damon Wilson, CNN GPS

At a time when NATO is facing a period of tensions and confrontation along its borders, does enlargement help or hurt the Alliance?

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Jun 26, 2014

Hansen: Securing Georgia and Using the West’s Capital Wisely

By Ian Hansen

Atlantic Council Program Assistant Ian Hansen writes for the Huffington Post on the importance of securing a strong liberal democracy in Georgia:

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New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2014

NATO Response on New-Member Applications May Impact Ukraine

By New Atlanticist

‘Enlargement contributes to security because it leads to more predictable relations with Russia’ NATO is again deciding how to respond to Eastern European nations’ requests to join the alliance, this in the face of opposition from Russia that has been underscored this year by President Vladimir Putin’s attacks on Ukraine. NATO foreign ministers are meeting […]

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About a dozen of NATO's 28 members reluctant to see Georgia join alliance

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Jun 24, 2014

NATO Unlikely to Grant Georgia Step to Membership-Diplomats

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO countries, wary of antagonising Russia, are unlikely to grant former Soviet republic Georgia a formal step towards membership of the alliance at a summit in September, NATO diplomats say.

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May 12, 2014

A Twenty-Year Truce Has Brought No Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

By Sabine Freizer

One of Europe’s Most Persistent Conflicts Simmers on in Ukraine’s Shadow Twenty years after Armenians and Azerbaijanis signed a truce in their war over Nagorno-Karabakh, almost no subsequent progress has been made in settling what is one of Europe’s most persistent remaining conflicts. Instead, especially in the past few years, sniper attacks, shelling and land […]

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