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Deterrence: what it can (and cannot) do

20 April 2015 Deterrence is designed to influence behaviour. But it has its limitations. Michael Ruehle illustrates how deterrence has never been a silver bullet – but also how maybe the West needs to relearn some of its nuances.

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Alone, we fail

8 December 2009 Same concept, different angles: video 3 - How will the timing of this new Strategic Concept affect the outcome? Will it be able to deal with threats for decades to come? How will it change the way international organizations work together? And what will its changes mean for the men and women in uniform? All of these questions come under scrutiny in this section.

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Rethinking NATO Partnerships for the 21st Century

27 March 2008 Ron Asmus argues that NATO's partnerships have to evolve as much, and as quickly, as the security threats they tackle.

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Ten years of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council : A personal reflection

1 April 2007 Robert F. Simmons Jr gives an insider's view of the genesis and evolution of NATO's main Partnership forum.

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Where’s NATO headed?

1 December 2006 Pierre Lellouche offers his thoughts ahead of the Riga Summit.

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Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, General Lance L. Smith

1 September 2006 As NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, US Air Force General Lance L. Smith oversees efforts to modernise NATO’s military structures, forces, capabilities and doctrines to improve the military effectiveness of the Alliance and its Partner nations.

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Future NATOs

1 June 2006 Stephan De Spiegeleire and Rem Korteweg consider a variety of scenarios for the Alliance's future.

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Should NATO play a more political role?

1 March 2005 Espen Barth Eide VERSUS Frédéric Bozo

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A wider Atlantic?

1 April 2004 Jamie Shea examines and summarises policy recommendations for improving transatlantic relations contained in recent think-tank publications.

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Reviving European defence cooperation

1 December 2003 Charles Grant examines the evolution of Europe's Security and Defence Policy and its impact on NATO and transatlantic relations.

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New capabilities, new members, new relationships

1 June 2002 Marc Grossman sets out Washington's vision for NATO in advance of the Alliance's Prague Summit.

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Getting Cinderella to the ball

1 September 2001 Robert E. Hunter examines the potential of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and proposes that it play a greater role in Euro-Atlantic security.

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Martti Ahtisaari: international mediator

1 September 2001 In June 1999, when President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari persuaded then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to accept NATO's terms for ending the Kosovo air campaign. Since leaving office in 2000, he has chaired various conflict-prevention organisations, has been an independent inspector of the IRA's arms dumps in Northern Ireland, and has founded an association to facilitate his international work.

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Imagining NATO 2011

1 September 2001 Michael Rhle gazes into his crystal ball and imagines how the Alliance and the Euro-Atlantic security environment might look in ten years.