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NATO’s New Strategic Concept and US Commitments in the Asia-Pacific

Oct 2009, Vol. 154, No. 5
By Stephan Frühling and Benjamin Schreer

The rise of China poses a great challenge for the transatlantic alliance. Although the common values that bind Europe and North America will not vanish, increasing demands on US resources from the Asia-Pacific region will erode the pre-eminence of the Atlantic alliance in American security policy. NATO must therefore adapt to the new reality by acknowledging the global nature of US commitments in its new Strategic Concept – and European powers must have a debate about the implications of East Asia for their own security.

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