- NATO Remains Our Essential Alliance
By R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- For the summit in Istanbul and beyond, the United States envisions setting five ambitious goals to enable NATO to deal effectively with 21st century challenges.
- The U.S. and NATO: A Partnership in Action
By A. Elizabeth Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
- Predictions of NATO's irrelevance and subsequent demise have repeatedly been proven wrong.
- NATO: An Alliance Transforming
By Ian Brzezinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs
- Collective defense remains the fundamental purpose of NATO, but the missions that flow from this responsibility have changed dramatically from those planned for during the Cold War.
- The New Politics of Transatlantic Defense Cooperation
By Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- In today's fluid strategic environment, NATO will be an anchor of stability.
- NATO's Role in Bringing Security to the Greater Middle East
By Chuck Hagel, U. S. Senator and Republican Member of the Committee on Foreign Relations
- Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Mediterranean, and Israel-Palestine are five areas in which NATO has the potential to use its experience to good effect.
- The Istanbul Summit: Stepping Up to the Challenge
By Joseph R. Biden, U.S. Senator and Ranking Democrat on the Committee on Foreign Relations
- It is time for NATO members to put the debate of Iraq behind them and focus on the joint need to successfully stabilize that country for the security of all.
- A Defining Moment in Purpose and Commitment
By Dr. Simon Serfaty, Center for Strategic and International Studies - The United States and its transatlantic partners must acknowledge their mutual dependence to successfully achieve and maintain security and stability and replace adversarial competiveness with the balance of complementarity.
- Partnership for Peace: Charting A Course for A New Era
By Dr. Jeffrey Simon, Institute for National Strategic Studies - NATO's highly successful partnership program must be transformed, adapted to other regions, and better resourced to address new security challenges.
- Western Security Efforts and the Greater Middle East
By Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies - Bringing security to the Greater Middle East will require, among other things, a commitment to deal with the root causes of instability, violence, and terrorism.
- Proposals for Renewing the Atlantic Partnership
By Dr. Charles A. Kupchan, Council on Foreign Relations - Europe and the United States must remember the lessons of the past and focus on five tasks to strengthen the Alliance.
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