No. 54: Alliance of Contradictions: After NATO's Anniversary Summit

Author(s): Victor Mauer
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 54
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2009

The NATO anniversary summit in Strasbourg and Kehl may have been overshadowed by controversy over the nomination of the new secretary-general, but the key issue was the realignment of strategy on Afghanistan, the renewal of the transatlantic partnership, and the task of elaborating a new strategic concept. The increasing dominance of the US in the Afghanistan mission will cause a relative decline of the alliance's importance. In order to preserve the essence of the transatlantic security partnership, NATO will have to trim back fundamentally the level of its aspirations.

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