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In the fall of 2006, Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier published an article in Foreign Affairs in which they set out the case for NATO to expand its mem...
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NATO was taken by surprise by the events surrounding the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. No official anticipated the speed with which the peaceful tu...
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LORD ISMAY, CANADIAN-STYLE
Lord Ismay, NATO's first secretary general, famously summed up the purposes of the Atlantic alliance as "keeping the Russ...
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The past decade has seen several lurches back and forth between discussions of cooperation and conflict between Iran and the United States and NATO in...
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Three grandchildren also die in air strike
TRIPOLI, Libya -- A NATO missile struck a house in Tripoli where Moammar Gadhafi and his wife were staying...
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Recently, Germany's anglo-saxon allies, in particular, have begun to wonder about the future role of Germany within the Atlantic alliance. To some all...
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The following analysis focuses on how the nuclear powers of the west were able to prevent the spread of nuclear weapon possession among their allies w...
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Rebel tanks on YouTube, but alliance didn't know?
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- NATO holds its fire as Moammar Gadhafi's forces advance 160 kilometres into re...
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Of course, a nuclear Iran is a major concern, but NATO has no mandate to deal with this subject," ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, deputy secretary general of NATO, told the annual NATO-Israel symposium in Israel last week. The symposium was organized by Prof. Uzi Arad, the founding director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy at the Inter-Disciplinary Centre in Hertzliyah and founding chairman of the Israeli Atlantic Forum, which calls for Israel's association with NATO.
Addressing the Atlantic Forum's symposium in Hertzliyah last week, former prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] urged NATO to accept Israel as a "full partner" by the year 2010. It is highly unlikely that NATO will do so. There are political and diplomatic considerations that prevent NATO from accepting Israel as a f...