August 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
Links
https://quincyinst.org/research/right-sizing-the-russian-threat-to-europe/#executive-summary
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.”