The NATO Summit this year is getting a lot of attention. In years past, it was mostly a specific subset of foreign policy enthusiasts who paid attention to the summit. This one is different.
For years, if there was any public debate about the identity and future of NATO, that debate mostly revolved around whether the alliance should continue to exist at all. NATO’s operations became less about defense and more about crisis management and intervention, raising fundamental questions about whether NATO’s remit should be expanded. Those questions were made especially complicated by the controversial and troubled intervention in Afghanistan. All of this has been exacerbated in the last decade by a trend within the West of turning inward and away from multilateralism.
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