NATO, Transatlantic Security, and Industry

• How Common is the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union?
  Paul Luif, Senior Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, spoke at CTR on this topic.  Click here for his presentation.
  
  
• NATO Enlargement and the Bucharest Summit
  The membership candidacies of Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia and the Membership Action Plan qualifications of Ukraine and Georgia will be decided at the NATO Summit meeting in Bucharest in April 2008.  Read CTR Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel's testimony before the Helsinki Commission on this topic here.
  
  
• ESDP and the Transatlantic Relationship
  Can the U.S. and the EU work directly on security? What are the implications for NATO? See the analysis by Volker Heise for SWP here.
  
  
• Afghanistan: Hard Choices for NATO
  Allies face tough challenges in Afghanistan. Peter Jones charts the course, particularly for Canada, in this piece for the Ottawa Citizen here. SAIS Visiting Scholar Ed Joseph and Brookings Fellow Phil Gordon examine what Afghanistan means for US commitment to multilateralism for the International Herald Tribune here.
  
  
• NATO and Missile Defense
  What options do the European members of NATO have re the U.S. missile defense program? Alexander Bitter from SWP offers some options here.
  
  
• Lugar Urges Active Role for NATO in Energy Security Policy
  Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) is calling on NATO to protect allied
  countries' energy security. Click here.

• NATO’s Riga Summit
  President Bush and allied leaders met in Riga, Latvia November 28 for NATO’s 2006 Summit. CTR Director Dan Hamilton argues that NATO is so focused on its out of area missions that it has taken its eye off its enduring "in area" mission -- protecting North Atlantic societies. Read his article in the International Herald Tribune here. What happened -- and didn't happen-- at Riga, and what should allies be doing now? Read analysis by Charles Skinner here. How should NATO be transformed? Read Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping NATO for the 21st Century edited by CTR Director Daniel Hamilton. Click here for a pdf copy of this book.
  
  For more on NATO’s role in energy security, click here.

• Transatlantic Security and Industry Program

• NATO Summit 2006: "Waiting for Another Day"
  Analysis by Karl-Heinz Kamp in Berlin - click here.

• CTR Publications
  Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping NATO for the 21st Century

• "Dutch to Bolster NATO"
  By Ambassador Boudewijn van Eenennaam, Washington Times, February 9 2006 - click here.

• "Big World, Big Future, Big NATO"
  By Julian Lindley-French, NATO Review, Winter 2005 - click here.