ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson is quoted by Bloomberg on this week’s NATO Summit in London.
“It’s not a fashionable view, I know,” said Sir Adam Thomson, the U.K.’s envoy to NATO from 2014-2016, but NATO “has been pursuing a new vision since the end of the Cold War and, to some extent, it’s already got a lot of the material.”
ELN Policy Fellow Katarina Kertysova appeared on Wilson Center NOW series to discuss the recent Trump administration decision to exit the Open Skies Treaty.
In this report, ELN Senior Associate Fellow Nick Williams, argues that NATO needs to consider its own interest when considering future enlargements, particularly the credibility and effectiveness of Article 5. This could include partnerships focussed more on the defence needs of NATO and proof that the aspirant member has developed in full its individual capacity to resist armed attack.
Ahead of the NATO Summit in Newport, Łukasz Kulesa, Research Director at the ELN, puts forward key recommendations on what a successful Summit would look like.