The NATO Alliance faces simultaneous dangers to its east, to its south, and from a series of security challenges unbounded by geography, at a time when disparate Allied responses to a host challenges are tearing the seams of European unity and American political figures have even questioned the need for NATO.
With these issues in mind five U.S. thin tank – the Atlantic Council; the Center for New American Security (CNAS); the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); the Center for Transatlantic relations (CTR) at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIOS); and the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) – have joined forces under the banner of the Washington NATO Project to generate new ideas and thinking about NATO’s future and the transatlantic community’s role in a changing global security environment. This report describes NATO’s challenges and offers recommendations on ways and means to address them.
