...as the discussion went around the table, with each leader making his or her case. The White House expressed confidence that NATO would give a strong statement of support for its mission in Afghanistan and that a number of countries would pledge additional...
...is pushing for early entrance despite Russia's strong objections. The Russian incursion in August raises questions for newer NATO members - like the three Baltic states that were part of the Soviet Union before the fall of the communist empire in 1991 - about...
...Russia's August invasion. Gates said on Thursday Washington was pushing NATO allies to put Georgia on a formal track to NATO membership in December. Some European allies want to delay membership to either Georgia or Ukraine due to concerns about the response...
...forma to anyone within geographic reach that exhibited proper manners. But the conflict in the Caucasus brought home to NATO's 26 members the unpleasant prospect of war with Russia. Moscow is truculent and the Europeans are nervous, yet US officials are pushing...
...to do what they did against Georgia. Nor do people want to pretend that Ukraine is anywhere near ready to join NATO. Nor are NATO countries ready to give a security commitment to Ukraine." He expects efforts will be made to enlarge ties short of NATO membership,...
...membership in NATO than it used to be,” Sergei Karaganov, a political analyst with close Kremlin connections, said in Moscow. Anatol Lieven, a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, said European countries and the United States...
...is one of the reasons that Russia is uncomfortable with enlargement; it diminishes Moscow's geopolitical sway. In that way NATO enlargement is in part a hedge against the potential return of Russian ambition." There is growing concern that NATO expansion could...
...that is exactly the kind of debate we need. Because it will help to understand a picture that is much more complex than some NATO-watchers want to make us believe. What those commentators tell us is that we have to make some stark choices: We are told that...
...bind the two nations together and because the partnership between the U.S. and Britain is at the heart of the NATO alliance. NATO, in turn, is central to U.S. policy because it is the most successful multilateral security institution in history. NATO respects...
...bind the two nations together and because the partnership between the U.S. and Britain is at the heart of the NATO alliance. NATO, in turn, is central to U.S. policy because it is the most successful multilateral security institution in history. NATO respects...