Globalizing NATO

The Death of NATO

The Necessity of NATO

NATO after Riga

NATO s Dangerous Signals

NATO After Istanbul

NATO Must Be Saved

NATO s Dangerous Afghan Dream

NATO expansion is off the table.

Sarkozy s Three Way NATO Bet

And then that year, that year, 2008, this ISAF statement from Kabul, Afghanistan, September 17th General Stanley McChrystal, commander of international security assistance forces in Afghanistan, announced today ISAF will not conduct offensive military operations on the 21st of September.

Re Setting the NATO Russia Relationship

NATO itself embodies that goal.

NATO has bet the alliance on Afghanistan.

NATO forced Serb forces to withdraw in June 1999, and international peacekeepers, under NATO s leadership, occupied Kosovo.

NATO soldiers die in vain.

NATO holds regular consultations with all of our partners.

NATO needs Russia, and Russia needs NATO, and the US shift away from unilateralism has restored the importance of multilateral security institutions while giving NATO the chance to establish new partnerships with the EU and Russia.

NATO officials persuasively argued that their collective defense commitment could not be delegated to a non NATO member.

NATO has been flexible since its inception.

All of these reforms demand coordination with NATO.

West European armies were embedded in NATO.

NATO, however, has stood aside.

NATO allies could make a similar statement.

And NATO is the most solid security insurance that the world has.

International Security Assistance Force commanded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Moreover, NATO in a way defines the sphere of a civilization, which of course doesn t mean that NATO s community is better than any other.

NATO faced off against the Warsaw Pact, created by the Soviet Union and its allies in 1955.

Russia has in particular opposed its neighbors joining NATO. What is NATO against, the Russians ask?

This is what kept NATO going since 1949.

In Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO intervened to stop massive human rights violations.

France was one of the founding members of NATO (1949).

NATO has been involved in the destruction of a number of surplus stockpiles.

Norway's priorities are in close keeping with NATO's policy.

At a time when Russia was taking a more pacific course, NATO unlike the Warsaw Pact was not dismantled.

The support of NATO and the African Union are important.

Much the same is true for Ukraine and NATO.

Has the time come for NATO to declare victory and leave?

NATO was created in 1949 as an alliance to contain Soviet power.

NATO, however, unlike the EU, is a military organization.

The UK is an active and regular participant in NATO and other coalition operations.

Instrument for standardized international reporting of

NATO has committed itself to providing similar support for the spring electoral process.

NATO s intervention in Kosovo was underway, and critics claimed that prosecuting Milosevic made the tribunal an arm of NATO and would prevent a settlement.

However important NATO may be, it would be a dramatic admission of its own helplessness and insignificance if the EU were to remain silent on this crucial issue for Europe s future.