The Bucharest Summit and the Future of NATO The chairman of the Commons Defence Committee reflects on the future of NATO and the recent Bucharest summit as it approaches its sixtieth anniversary.
NATO’s Summit: A Disappointment to the Alliance’s New Member States NATO’s Riga summit finished with predictable compromise. But for the Central and East Europeans, the summit is now seen as a missed opportunity. None of their strategic challenges were fully addressed.
Back to Basics at NATO: Burden-Sharing and Alliance Raison d’ętre Whilst there is widespread agreement that the Alliance’s mission in Afghanistan must succeed or NATO’s future will be dealt a fatal blow, beyond this, the same old problems continue to haunt the Alliance. If allowed to fester, they may ultimately jeopardize the ISAF operation.
French Security and Defence Policy under Sarkozy: Gazing into the Crystal Ball Whilst the dust has barely settled from Presidential and Parliamentary elections in which security and defence issues were very largely absent from the debate, interested parties both within and outside France are already trying to discern the directions in which the new President and his senior team will steer France on these issues.