NATO

Tra mar Baltico (“fianco est”) e mar Mediterraneo (“fianco sud”), il centro geopolitico di gravità della NATO si chiama oggi mar Nero: l’insolito incontro di Varsavia tra i ministri degli esteri di Polonia, Romania e Turchia lo ha…

US President Barack Obama said that NATO’s Warsaw Summit was the most important such gathering of Alliance heads of state and government since the end of the Cold War. It was also his last. This juxtaposition between importance and “lame…

With the approach of the opposition to Sirte, NATO’s Operation Unified Protector over Libya will likely soon be scaled down. Nigh on ten years after 9/11, and after a grueling decade of controversy and division, the Alliance can finally…

British Prime Minister David Cameron has a problem. His coalition government is committed to reduce the €150 billion hole in the public finances bequeathed him by the profligate Labour Party and Britain’s casino bankers. This might suggest…

The 2010 NATO Strategic Concept sets an ambitious challenge: to re-orient the alliance’s main effort away from coping with enlargement and towards “active engagement”. The Strategic Concept defines the challenge thus: an alliance…