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Vivien Pertusot: NATO’s leverage in the Arab world is limited, and the Arab uprisings illustrated it. Transition and reform processes will leave little room for NATO. Its only options are to better clarify its expectations, to listen more, and to cooperate with other actors to offer multifaceted cooperation packages.
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Editorial Team: Why doesn’t NATO have a good slogan? The NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy answers this and more in a final set of your questions, including answers about post-Cold War relevance and the strength of the Article 5 guarantee.
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Megan Ann Reiss: Through developing a strategic advertising campaign, NATO can instill ownership among its citizens and assure a strong future for the alliance. NATO must remind them of their shared values, advocate for diplomatic influence in decision making, and highlight the economic value of the organization.
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Simon James Anglim: The study of Special Forces has largely been neglected in academic literature, but they remain among the most effective military tools available. Modern armies should continue investing in Special Forces to carry out tactical missions that conventional military units are ill-suited to perform.
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Alexandra Jonas: Policymakers should take a closer look at the drafting process of developing NATO’s strategic concept. Introducing transparency, communication and consensus building into drafting strategy will only serve to create more credible and effective policy.
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Editorial Team: Atlantic Community members have discussed, made suggestions and contributed to the debate around NATO’s much awaited New Strategic Concept. We have already presented an Atlantic Memo to the Alliance and are currently involved in a Policy Workshop on Russian-Western Relations.
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Memo 25: Focusing on the core mission, strengthening global partnerships, and launching broad public diplomacy initiatives are atlantic-community.org’s top three recommendations for NATO’s new Strategic Concept.
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Greg Randolph Lawson: Rather than aiming to become a global constabulary force, NATO should retain its historical focus on intra-European stability and allow other regional multilateral institutions to take on their own roles in their own neighborhoods.
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C. Mazzucelli & O. Dursun-Özkanca: The new Strategic Concept should emphasize the Alliance’s role in crisis management, as the floods in Pakistan have demonstrated that NATO’s response is inadequate. The US, Turkey, and France, which make up NATO’s Strategic Triangle, must take the lead in shaping the Alliance’s emergency relief strategy.
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Felix F. Seidler: Challenges in today’s security environment do not limit themselves to the North Atlantic region. NATO’s new Strategic Concept must strengthen the mechanisms for formering global partnerships. A global partnership council should be created to increase global cooperation in Alliance activities.
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Walter L. Christman: NATO’s new Strategic Concept risks “pouring new wine into old wineskins” if it updates the concept of Partnership without reinvigorating the tools to accompany it. Several approaches developed together with the 1999 Strategic Concept should be revitalized for more global application.
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Luca Ratti: NATO’s planners should focus upon retaining cohesion among Cold War and post-Cold War members, as well as designing effective solutions to engage new partners, old enemies, and emerging powers. The Strategic Concept must prioritize cohesion and clarity, rather than spelling out new threats facing the Alliance.
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Youth Atlantic Treaty Association: NATO’s new Strategic Concept must concentrate on improving relations with rising world powers, developing new policies for interorganizational cooperation and out-of-area engagements, securing an international missile defense system and expanding the nuclear sharing arrangement, and reforming the burden sharing concept.
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Jerzy S Deren: Member states must be able to reach operational capability target goals in order for the Alliance to meet the security obligations that will be outlined in the new Strategic Concept. Standardization and interoperability are key to NATO force planning. Defense priorities must not promise more than capabilities can deliver.
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Olga Kolesnichenko: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has a clear vision for transforming the organization into a modern Alliance. Though the new Strategic Concept will only be revealed in November at Lisbon, an analysis of Rasmussen’s first-year speeches provides a detailed outline of the strategies and values that will be found in the document.
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Jasur Sumerinli Mammadov: NATO’s new Strategic Concept must address its relations with the South Caucasus region, which holds a place of particular geopolitical importance. A special partnership with Azerbaijan, the mediation of frozen conflicts, and a “safety zone” that deepens cooperation between NATO and non-member states are all crucial steps forward.
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Ian Davis: NATO’s new Strategic Concept should make a political commitment to investigate allegations of WMD use by members of the Alliance, refocus the Response Force toward humanitarian missions and establish a common helicopter pool, and require parliamentary ratification by all 28 member states.
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Daniel Nikolits: When looking at the twenty-first century’s global security challenges, there is more that unites NATO and Russia than divides them. The next Strategic Concept must aim to strengthen the partnership with Russia for the benefit of both sides.
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Klaus Spiessberger: NATO’s new Strategic Concept should give priority to three key areas of activity: the strengthening of public diplomacy initiatives, the further development of a modern, flexible Response Force, and the improvement in relations with Russia, with membership as a future consideration.
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Djörn Eversteijn: NATO’s new strategic concept should define the alliance’s role in responding to 21st century security threats, while acknowledging that the organisation’s capacities are limited. NATO needs to prioritize and address the so called “desolidarisation” within the alliance, while also reinforcing public support, especially amongst the younger generations.
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Joerg Wolf: The United States and some of its European partners seem to have increasingly different policy priorities. Should NATO members support the surge in Afghanistan and increase their defense budgets? Or should NATO focus on nuclear disarmament?
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Sebastian Bruns: A renaissance of NATO’s maritime dimension is necessary in this globalized world, where piracy can wreak havoc on trade and international security. The new strategic concept must take into account the unique and increasing role that waterways will play in the twenty-first century.
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Jerzy S Deren: ISAF consists of a huge number of actors constrained by limited political will, with unequal combat roles, making forces more vulnerable. A holistic approach is required to counter the unique challenges of the Afghan war. Furthermore, a successful conclusion to this complex process is the only way to prove NATO’s credibility to an increasingly skeptical public.
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Memo 6: Members of the Atlantic Community are convinced that NATO needs to redefine its future role and relationship with Russia. Fundamental change, however, is unlikely to occur in the near future and the NATO-Russian relationship may worsen.
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