NATO’s Strategic Concept: Three Do’s and Don’ts

Author(s): Henrik Larsen
Editor(s): Dominika Kunertova
Series Editor(s): Brian Carlson
Series: CSS Policy Perspectives
Volume: 9
Issue: 7
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

The new Strategic Concept must clarify the tasks that NATO should undertake in the great-power competition with, and defense of common values against, Russia and China, argues Henrik Larsen in this CSS Policy Perspective. It should concentrate on military burden sharing to improve alliance cohesion rather than on the condemnation of allies’ democratic shortcomings, tie resilience to collective defense and national security but not extend into an area like ordinary law enforcement, and state NATO’s ambition to define gold standards for new technology but refrain from “going global”.

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