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The magnitude of the events of 11 September, when terrorists
flew hijacked airliners into the Pentagon and World Trade
Center, is such that the date has already been ingrained on
humanity's collective consciousness. Few people alive today
will ever be able to forget where they were or what they were
doing when they heard the news. In response, this issue of
NATO Review focuses on new security threats and ways
of combating them. In the first of four articles on this theme,
I look at how the Alliance has assisted the United States
in the wake of the 11 September attacks. Subsequently, Robert
Hall and Carl Fox argue that new, comprehensive and transnational
strategies are required to deal with the security challenges
of the 21st century. Frank J. Cilluffo and Daniel Rankin of
the Center for Strategic and International Studies urge a
flexible, comprehensive and coordinated strategy to fight
terrorism. Timothy Shimeall, Phil Williams and Casey Dunlevy
of the CERT Analysis Center of Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, argue that defence planning has
to incorporate the virtual world to limit physical damage
in the real. Elsewhere,Willem Matser of the Office of NATO's
Special Adviser for Central and Eastern Europe examines the
evolution in NATO-Russian relations since 11 September and
Osman Yavuzalp of NATO's Political Affairs Division considers
the Alliance's relations with its Central Asian Partners.
In the interview, Ted Whiteside of NATO's WMD Centre describes
the work of his centre. In the debate, Keith Payne of the
National Institute for Public Policy and Joseph Cirincione
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discuss
how missile defence fits into security spending priorities
in the wake of 11 September. In the review, Petr Lunak, outreach
editor in NATO's Office of Information and Press, considers
how documents discovered in Warsaw Pact archives are influencing
and challenging conventional interpretations of the Cold War
alliances. Statistics illustrating international terrorism
and a map indicating the nationalities of the dead from 11
September round out the issue.
Christopher Bennett
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Alliance news in brief
Christopher
Bennett examines how NATO has assisted the United States since
11 September. 
