The Future of NATO and European Security
Great Decisions 2025 | Topic 6
Europe is frightened and frightening for the first time really since the 1980s, when nuclear sabers were rattling as the Soviet Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) both deployed contending intermediate range missiles along the dividing line of the military alliances. With Russia’s continued barbarity in Ukraine there is no escaping that Vladimir Putin intends not to be “European”
Europe is frightened and frightening for the first time really since the 1980s, when nuclear sabers were rattling as the Soviet Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) both deployed contending intermediate range missiles along the dividing line of the military alliances. With Russia’s continued barbarity in Ukraine there is no escaping that Vladimir Putin intends not to be “European”
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Sarwar Kashmeri, "NATO's Future."
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Timothy Andrews Sayle, "Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order."
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Stanley Sloan, "Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union, and the Transatlantic Bargain."
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