United States and Canada

The United States has enjoyed an unparalleled period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Second World War, due to its construction of a rules-based international order and maintenance of close alliances and partnerships. Canada has been a key partner for the United States, both due to their close economic links and their shared border, the world’s longest at 5,525 miles. Canada is also a key NATO ally for the United States and is active in international diplomacy around the world.

NATO Plans Military Exercises Near Russian Border

Dispatches
Mar 11, 2026

Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war

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Atlantic Council experts

As the US-Israeli war against Iran reverberates across the Middle East and the globe, Atlantic Council experts bring clarity to the fast-moving events.

Conflict
Iran

NATO Plans Military Exercises Near Russian Border

Event Recap
Mar 6, 2026

Inside Trump’s long-term economic strategy, with EXIM Bank’s John Jovanovic

By
Katherine Golden

At an Atlantic Council Front Page event, Jovanovic talked about the supply chains he is working to reshape, from critical minerals to energy.

Trade and tariffs
United States and Canada

NATO Plans Military Exercises Near Russian Border

Dispatches
Feb 25, 2026

Why the Arctic matters to the United States

By
Julia Nesheiwat

The region is rapidly becoming a geopolitical arena where Russia and China’s deepening cooperation challenges Western dominance.

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NATOSource

Mar 4, 2010

NATO Plans Military Exercises Near Russian Border

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  NATO has announced it will hold military exercises involving fighter planes over the Baltic Sea this month, the first in a series of military drills to be held this year near the Russian border. The Baltic Region Training Event training mission will take place over the former Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia […]

United States and Canada

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Mar 4, 2010

Sarkozy Falls for Russia

By the Times (London)

From the Times (London):  What a difference three years make. Campaigning for election in early 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy hammered Russia over human rights and promised to break with the cosy, uncritical relations that President Chirac pursued with Moscow. This week, President Sarkozy has thrown France into Russian arms, receiving President Medvedev on a state visit […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 3, 2010

Russia Holds Black Sea Drills “Under NATO’s Watchful Eye”

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: The Russian Black Sea Fleet practiced an amphibious landing of troops on the coast of Abkhazia as a nearby NATO vessel observed, a Russian Navy source said on Wednesday. He said the drills, involving a dozen warships, were conducted on February 27 in close cooperation with the coast guard forces of the […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Mar 3, 2010

Is Europe Shaping Policy by Playing Safe?

By the New York Times

From the New York Times:  The bloc has two million soldiers. Yet according to the European Defense Agency, the bloc can sustain only 110,000 soldiers in international missions. Over 70 percent of European land forces are unusable outside national territory because they have not modernized since the end of the Cold War. This failure to […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Mar 2, 2010

NATO Future in Question As Afghanistan Role Dwindles

By Time

From Time: [A] call for 3,200 additional NATO soldiers to help train the fledgling Afghan army was answered with commitments for only half that number. "Training and advising the security forces of other nations needs to become a key alliance mission," Gates said. "In Afghanistan, the alliance has struggled to field the trainers and mentors needed […]

United States and Canada

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Mar 2, 2010

Partners in Decline

By  Foreign Policy

From Foreign Policy:  Perhaps the end of the Cold War was an opportune time to kill off NATO, but the Balkan crises of the 1990s and post-9/11 security challenges proved that the alliance was still needed. The same is true today. The alternative — to replace NATO with an ad hoc ABCD alliance (America, Britain, Canada, […]

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 28, 2010

Europe’s Errors

By  Time

From Time: The third strategic error is to remain obsessed with the transatlantic relationship. It is difficult to capture in a few words the strange mix of European attitudes towards America: admiration and resentment of American hyperpower, respect and condescension towards U.S. culture, dependence on and discomfort with American leadership. At the core of this is […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 28, 2010

NATO not Going Global, for Now: U.S. Official

By the People's Daily Online

From the People’s Daily Online: A senior U.S. official said Friday that NATO’s area of responsibility should remain the Euro-Atlantic region, but it can become a platform for coalition operations involving non-member states, as is the case of South Korea and Australia’s participation in the Afghan mission. Alexander Vershbow, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 28, 2010

U.S. Warns Russia Against Assertion in Baltic Region

By  RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Though seeking to find new ways of working with Russia, the United States will not accept Moscow’s policies in the Baltic region, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy said at a news conference in Tallinn on Friday. "We’ve made it very clear that even as we seek to find new ways of […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 25, 2010

What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?

By  Foreign Policy

From Foreign Policy: Three days later, the former commanders of the navy and air force were released — further proof that the government’s intention was to intimidate Turkey’s military, rather than proceed with an indictment against these high-ranking officials. The arrests followed a Feb. 19 incident in which an audio recording of Turkey’s chief of staff […]

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Alvin Camba

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Newton Henry Campbell Jr.

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Elina Carpen

Associate Director

Global Energy Center

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Lesley Chavkin

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Economic Statecraft Initiative GeoEconomics Center

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B. Pratyusha Chennupati

Head of Regulatory Affairs, Pebble Labs Inc.

Millennium Leadership Program

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Deborah Cheverton

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Forward Defense Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security

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