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NATO at Sixty
The North Atlantic Treaty was signed on 4 April, 1949. In the sixty years of its existence, the organisation has outlasted the Cold War, expanded its membership more than twofold and taken on new challenges in the Balkans and Afghanistan.
RUSI’s engagement with NATO has been enduring and dynamic. From our archives we feature research projects conducted on behalf of the Alliance, together with an extensive collection of expert articles and speeches made by NATO leaders at the Institute.
Forecasting the Prospects for NATO at Sixty
As NATO celebrates its sixtieth year, RUSI.org forecasts the prospects for the Alliance.
Post-Modern NATO
Christopher Coker
NATO at Sixty: Unhappy Returns
Michael Clarke
NATO's Strategic Concept – a View from Mars
Michael Codner
An `Awakening’ at Sea?: NATO and Maritime Security
Lee Willett
Prospects for the Transatlantic Alliance
Ellen Hallams
NATO Treads Carefully in the Middle East
Mina Al-Oraibi
RUSI and NATO: An Enduring Partnership
Providing a Platform
Since Lord Ismay, the first Secretary General, lectured here in 1954, many NATO leaders have chosen to speak at RUSI or to write in the pages of its flagship publication, the RUSI Journal. Speeches by Lord Ismay, Lord Carrington and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among others are available at:
Studying the Alliance
RUSI research programmes have consistently engaged with the subject of NATO, studying diverse aspects of Alliance politics and strategy. Recent projects have examined the likely effects of French reintegration, strategic challenges for the Alliance, and energy security from a NATO perspective. NATO Research provides an overview of RUSI’s major reports on the subject of the Alliance.
NATO Analysis collects together articles from RUSI’s publications and online commentaries on the subject of NATO.
Debating NATO's Future
RUSI has also held a number of high-level conferences on the theme of the Alliance. Drawing together researchers and policymakers, these events identify and analyse key developments in NATO’s evolving mission.
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In the run up to the Bucharest summit RUSI ran a series of three events in Romania, discussing key issues for NATO. Civil-military partnership in Afghanistan, Energy Security and security in the Balkans were the central strands of these conferences. His Excellency Mr Teodor Melescanu, Minister of Defence of Romania, launched the event, speaking on the transformation of the Alliance.
A RUSI report developed the analysis of the conference's three key themes:
NATO's Agenda: Key Issues Facing the Bucharest Summit> - In 2006, a RUSI conference looked ahead to the central issues of the Riga summit. Jose Maria Aznar gave the keynote address. A RUSI report built on the results of the conference to analyse the prospects and challenges for NATO transformation:
The Road to Riga and the Path Ahead> - RUSI has also held conferences on NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue. Speeches by Lord Robertson (2003 and 2002) and Deputy Secretary General Alessandro Minuto Rizzo also explored this issue. Alastair Cameron and Christopher Pang were invited in 2007 and 2008 to moderate discussions on NATO/Mediterranean issues at the NATO Defence College seminars in Rome.
Further commentaries and articles on the subject of NATO are available at NATO Analysis>
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