Special Edition: Approaching the NATO Summit
Foreign Policy Research Institute
A nation must think before it acts.
This week the thirty-two allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will convene in Washington, DC to discuss the most pressing issues facing the alliance today and provide strategic guidance for its future activities. FPRI experts offer their insights on the external and internal challenges facing the alliance and offer a broader context about NATO's history, purpose, and evolution.
Analysis
"The NATO summit in Washington comes at a crucial time for the alliance. For starters, it marks NATO’s 75th anniversary, which is a remarkable feat deserving of commemoration. Maintaining allied political cohesion on continuing the flow of Western military aid to Ukraine in the fight against Russia is among the biggest concerns."
"On the surface, the crux of the dilemma is simple: NATO operates on the principle of a non-zero-sum view of security, where the security of each ally is linked directly to the security of every other ally. However, Ukraine is not yet a member of the Alliance."
"With leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance—along with dialogue partners from across the Indo-Pacific region—in Washington set to begin their consultations on July 9, they will have the opportunity to frame strategic responses to the shifting geopolitics of great power competition. Here are a few “action items” that should be on the summit agenda."
Conversations
"NATO is after all also a value-based organization and if I were an American I could not think of better allies than my European partners. In that respect, NATO is, if you look back into history, a unique alliance where a superpower guarantees the ultimate security of a number of nations thousands of miles overseas."
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Episode 2: Linchpin
In this episode, we go back to the beginning. What is NATO? What challenges has NATO faced in the past? How are these similar or different to today’s issues? Why is NATO important for US national security? Why should Americans care about the security of Europe? Former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, and Seth Johnston join Walter Landgraf, PhD .
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