Nordic NATO
Why It's Time For Finland and Sweden to Join the Alliance April 30, 2014 Jan Joel Andersson Summary: Western leaders should start booking flights to Stockholm and Helsinki to make the case that Sweden...
View ArticleNATO's Biggest Mistake
The Alliance Drifted From Its Core Mission -- And the World Is Paying the Price May 5, 2014 Michael E. Brown Summary: For 20 years, NATO security policy has been guided by flawed assumptions about...
View ArticleNATO's Biggest Mistake
The Alliance Drifted From Its Core Mission -- And the World Is Paying the Price May 8, 2014 Michael E. Brown Summary: For 20 years, NATO security policy has been guided by flawed assumptions about...
View ArticleLong March to Brussels
Why NATO and the EU Must Reopen Their Doors to the Balkans June 26, 2014 Edward P. Joseph and Janusz Bugajski Summary: To help contain Russia, Washington must use its influence to break the stalemate...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Interdependence
How Global Ties Tied Our Hands in Russia August 5, 2014 Stuart Gottlieb and Eric Lorber Summary: Greater interdependence reduces the likelihood of conflict between nations or groups of nations by...
View ArticleA Grand Bargain with Russia
What It Would Take to Get the Kremlin to Cooperate August 8, 2014 Vladislav Inozemtsev and Anton Barbashin Summary: Neither the West nor Russia will benefit from further hostilities, but the Russian...
View ArticleFriends With Benefits
What the UAE Really Wants from NATO August 14, 2014 Bilal Y. Saab Summary: The United Arab Emirates has recently said and done all the right things to prove that it wants a stronger partnership with...
View ArticleWhy the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin August 18, 2014 John J. Mearsheimer Summary: Conventional wisdom in the West blames the Ukraine crisis on Russian aggression. But this account is wrong:...
View ArticlePut It in Writing
How the West Broke Its Promise to Moscow October 29, 2014 Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson Summary: Russian leaders often claim the United States reneged on a promise not to expand NATO after the Cold...
View ArticleThe West Should Arm Ukraine
Here's Why—And How February 10, 2015 Alexander J. Motyl Summary: If and when Russia becomes friendly toward the West, Ukraine’s strategic importance will fade. Until then, defending Ukraine’s...
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