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April 25, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Russia stirs concern with gestures toward two Georgian breakaway provinces. Moscow’s moves follow Kosovo’s secession and NATO expansion promises.
See more in Georgia, Russian Fed., Kosovo
April 25, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
International institutions are desperately needed and woefully ineffective, argues Michael Gerson.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
April 9, 2008
| Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
The NATO allies no longer agree on the imminence or the nature of the threats they confront, argues Charles A. Kupchan.
April 8, 2008
| Authors: | Ivo H. Daalder James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
When NATO leaders met last week, they did tremendous damage to enlargement policy as a whole, argue Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Goldgeier.
April 1, 2008
| Author: | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall notes that, “NATO is actually doing far less than it should be doing. The current pace of operations creates a crisis-like environment in which the urgent crowds out the important.”
See more in NATO, Peacekeeping, Public Diplomacy
![CFR Conference Call: The Upcoming NATO Summit [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]](/content/publications/images/natocanadian-troops.jpg)
March 27, 2008
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Senior Fellow for Translatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Anya Schmemann, Director of Communications, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
Updated: December 21, 2007
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Daily Analysis
Pledges of more resources for Afghanistan have buoyed hopes for a rejuvenated NATO mission. Yet concerns persist about the alliance’s viability there.
See more in Afghanistan, Wars and Warfare, International Peace and Security
November 29, 2006
Daily Analysis
NATO leaders pitted the credibility of their alliance to the ongoing effort to stabilize Afghanistan at their summit in Riga, but failed to resolve disputes that keep some major member states—including Germany, Italy, Spain, and France—from serious combat duty there.
See more in Afghanistan, International Organizations, International Peace and Security
October 4, 2006
| Speaker: | James L. Jones, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe |
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| Presider: | Jonathan Karl, Senior National Security Correspondent, ABC News |
Transcript
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, General James Jones, says the alliance has sufficient manpower to fulfill its mission in Afghanistan but faces ultimate failure unless counternarcotics and reconstruction efforts improve.
See more in Afghanistan
July 27, 2006
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
With talk of deploying NATO peacekeepers to patrol the Lebanese border, the alliance is tackling new challenges outside of Europewhile looking to recruit new members. Not everyone, however, supports a larger NATO.
See more in International Organizations
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