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Flags of NATO member countries hang at the Parliament Square at the last NATO Summit in London, on December 2, 2019.

The EU is the Military Ally the United States Needs

Tensions over anemic European defense spending have long suffused transatlantic relations—and since 2014, they have become all-consuming, crowding out other priorities, straining the alliance, and…

Max Bergmann 15 January 2021

US President Donald Trump (R) and France's President Emmanuel Macron react as they talk during their meeting at Winfield House, London on December 3, 2019. (Getty)

NATO’s Anniversary Summit Highlights Internal Fragmentation

President Donald Trump and 28 other heads of state and government travelled to the UK this week to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary alongside Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But while leaders…

Yasmine El Geressi 07 December 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Donald Trump (3R) and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and other NATO heads of state watch a helicopter flyover after a family photo for the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on July 11, 2018. (Getty)

Europe Alone

Speaking at theMunich Security Conferencein early 2019, former Vice PresidentJoe Bidenhad a reassuring message for European politicians, diplomats, and military leaders worried about American…

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad 19 July 2019

The Convincing Call from Central Europe: Let Us into NATO

Twenty years ago today, the first major post–Cold War expansion ofNATOtook place in an unlikely locale:Independence, Missouri. TheCzech Republic,Hungary, andPolandofficially enteredNATOin a ceremony…

M. E. Sarotte 22 March 2019

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