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NATO’s 75th Anniversary Summit Meeting. NATO photo.

 

The Editor’s Page

Commentary: Marking NATO’s 75 Years

NATO at 75: Success Through Adaptation by Hans Binnendijk
NATO Bolsters Its Eastern Flank by William Courtney
Ukraine’s Long Path Toward NATO by Steven Pifer
Europe and NATO: Mountains Ahead by W. Robert Pearson
Has NATO Enlargement Enhanced US Security? by Joshua Shifrinson

Eyewitness

Getting NATO Membership to 32: Why We Needed Public Diplomacy by Renee M Earle
Curious Consular Encounters by Jonathan Rickert
Memories from a Cold War Summit by Sherwood Demitz

Student Corner

The Nature of the War in Ukraine, and the Role of American Foreign Policy by Emma Crasnitch

Moments in Diplomacy

Ambassador Princeton Lyman describes the negotiations that led to Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa and US efforts to facilitate the process.

Nelson Mandela’s Road to the Presidency

What do you do when a non-nuclear state becomes a state with nuclear weapons? Three of the US officials involved discuss US diplomacy before and after the 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests.

India and Pakistan on the Brink: The 1998 Nuclear Tests

The UN Special Representative in Haiti from 1997-99 gives his views on why that intervention and others have failed: 1) military interventions cannot change cultures; 2) interventions too often try to give the people what outsiders think they need instead of finding out what the people think they need.

Lessons from Haiti: Why Security-Only Interventions Fail

From Our Archives

AD recalls Madeleine Albright’s historic speech in Prague following NATO’s invitation to Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic to join the Alliance.

https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2022/05/remembering-madeleine-albright-and-the-community-of-freedom/, May 2022.

In the articles below, David Jones argues in 2009 that NATO should not be further expanded or employed in out of area missions and in 2012 that NATO remains worthy of US support even though many of its members have not met their financial commitments to it.

https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2012/03/in-defense-of-nato/
https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2009/04/nato-at-sixty/

Books of Interest

 

The Art of Diplomacy By Stuart E. Eisenstadt
Gaia’s Web By Karen Bakker
Made in China By Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson
Everyone Who is Gone Is Here By Jonathan Blitzer
Nostalgic Virility As A Cause of War By Matthieu Grandpierron
America’s Cold Warrior By James Graham Wilson

Links

Three Quincy Institute authors take a detailed look at the Russian threat to Europe and advise that “Russia likely has neither the capability nor the intent to launch a war of aggression against NATO members — but the ongoing brinkmanship between Russia and the West still poses serious risks of military escalation that can only be defused by supplementing military deterrence with a diplomatic effort to address tensions.”

Right-Sizing the Russian Threat to Europe

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