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The Three Faces of NATO

Richard K. Betts | Apr 10, 2009
One must wonder why, with the end of the cold war, NATO did not dissolve. How do we explain the organization's transformation and vitality at the end of the twentieth century?

The Bell Tolls for NATO

Ilana Bet-El
Rupert Smith
| Jan 02, 2008
NATO is in a struggle for its life, and Afghanistan just may deliver the fatal blow.

NATO: Going, going...

Harlan Ullman | Mar 01, 2007
NATO has an insecure future. Afghanistan will determine if it has one.

Israel in NATO?

Richard Rupp | Nov 10, 2006
Such a proposal brings as many complications as it does benefits.

Transatlantic Troubles

Andrew A. Michta | Nov 10, 2006
America need not restore the bygone, comprehensive relationship with Europe to achieve its purposes.

Reaganism v. Neo-Reaganism

Richard Lowry | Mar 01, 2005
Reagan knew the difference between a conservative foreign policy and Wilsonian interventionism. Do his soi-disant heirs know it too?
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Commentary

Terror in the Balkans

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 07, 2010
Forget whatever flavor of the month is making headlines in the Balkans. Guess where the perpetrators of nearly every terrorist plot of the last twenty years got their start?

Bosnian Lessons

Gordon N. Bardos | Jul 16, 2010
What are the prospects for success in Iraq and Afghanistan? Our nation-building record in Bosnia and Kosovo isn’t encouraging.

Departing Europe

Doug Bandow | Jul 13, 2010
Rather than whining about the Continent’s military spending, the United States should allow the Europeans to bear the consequences of their actions. That means leaving NATO to the Europeans.
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Books & Reviews

Banal and Dubious

Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 01, 2000
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.

How the West Was Spun

John O'Sullivan | Mar 01, 1999
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W

...And the Road to Vienna

Noel Malcolm | Mar 01, 1999
In Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe, Paul Lendvai recounts his remarkable journey from the Nazi wartime death marches, to his days as a young communist apologist, and on to his later "crusade of information" against comm
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