NATO Allies’ geopolitical diversity and the cohesion of the Alliance

• NDC Policy Brief 21-2022: NATO Allies’ geopolitical diversity and the cohesion of the Alliance, by Thierry Tardy *

The Russia-Ukraine war has revealed a high degree
of cohesion among NATO Allies, who largely converge on what the Alliance is about and
how it should respond to the Russian threat. In the longer-term, though, NATO’s cohesion will be dependent
on Allies’ success in knitting together a common vision
from their varying strategic cultures and threat assessments. And indeed, from the United States’ global reach
and first-class military to France’s strategic autonomy
imperative and the UK’s renewed ambition for ‘Global
Britain’; from the Baltic states’ and Poland’s geographical proximity to Russia, to Italy’s and Spain’s regional
southern focus; and from Türkiye’s special defence and
foreign policy posture to Germany’s Zeitenwende, the Atlantic Alliance brings together a wide range of geopolitical diversity.

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