Building the bridge: How to inject credibility into NATO’s promise of membership for Ukraine
New Atlanticist
Jun 10, 2024
Ukraine’s bridge to NATO membership must be built in ways that institutionalize its integration into the Alliance’s structures—starting now.
By Ian Brzezinski
The United States supports and leads NATO not out of altruism, but because it is manifestly in its interest to do so.
By Richard D. Hooker, Jr.
Why NATO matters
May 28, 2024
New Atlanticist
As more allies cross the threshold of spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, it’s time for the conversation to evolve.
By Valbona Zeneli and Philippe Dickinson
Rethinking the NATO burden-sharing debate
Jun 20, 2024
New Atlanticist
NATO’s first southern flank strategy is coming together for the upcoming Washington summit. But additional spending in four specific areas is needed, too.
By Jason Davidson
Four steps that NATO’s southern flank strategy needs to succeed
Jun 25, 2024
New Atlanticist
The Washington Summit next week is an opportunity for the Alliance to send clear demand signals to industry and develop more coordinated, effective industrial strategies.
By Kristen Taylor
NATO allies need a better approach to industrial strategy
Jul 1, 2024
New Atlanticist
NATO’s success hinges on allies’ ability to verify readiness, overcome capability gaps, revitalize the transatlantic defense industrial base, and integrate national defense plans with NATO defense plans.
By Luka Ignac
From blueprints to battlefields: How to ensure NATO’s future readiness
Jul 8, 2024
New Atlanticist
Learning from the allies that are already taking action will give other NATO members that decide to enhance their resilience a leg up.
By Elisabeth Braw
National resilience is a crucial part of defense. Here are the countries doing it right.
Jun 3, 2024
New Atlanticist
The Washington summit saw important women, peace, and security commitments, but NATO can do more to support female soldiers and civilians.
By Sarah Dawn Petrin
The Women, Peace, and Security agenda made important strides at NATO’s Washington summit
July 24, 2024
New Atlanticist
By taking steps to use OSINT more effectively, NATO can preempt, deter, and defeat its adversaries’ efforts to expand their influence and undermine the security of member states.
By AM Sir Christopher Harper, KBE, RAF (Ret.) and Robert Bassett Cross MC
NATO must recognize the potential of open-source intelligence
Aug 13, 2024
New Atlanticist
To adapt to the impacts of climate change
on global security, NATO must improve how
it incorporates climate security into its training
and operational planning.
By Heidi Hardt and Jacqueline Burns
NATO wants to be
a leader on climate security. Here are the next steps to get there.
Aug 19, 2024
New Atlanticist
Russian President Vladimir Putin has time and again played the United States and its European allies, believing that they are too scared of the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons to push back against his threats.
By Michael John Williams
To deter Russia, NATO must adapt its nuclear sharing program
July 30, 2024
New Atlanticist
Amid rising threats from Russia and China, it is in the interest of both NATO and its Indo-Pacific partners to deepen their cooperation.
By Gorana Grgić
How NATO and its Indo-Pacific partners can work together in an era of strategic competition
Aug 7, 2024
New Atlanticist
