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In November 2019, on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, The Economist<\/em> explained that \u201cthe first world war happened because a generation of Victorian leaders took for granted the stable order that had prevailed in Europe for decades\u201d.1<\/a> In many respects, this is a refrain for our time as well. Despite the traumas of the Cold War and the more than a quarter century that has followed, Europe has enjoyed a substantial and, in many ways, unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. The geopolitical stability of the bipolar Cold War standoff gave way to a Europe that was much closer to the ideal of \u201ca Europe whole and free and at peace\u201d2<\/a> than at any time in its history. NATO as a \nDespite what seemed for more than two decades to be a \u201cnew normal\u201d of post-Cold War stability, however, Europe now faces the dangers of a revisionist great power on its eastern flank, alongside the persistent threat of terrorism, plus fragile political and economic institutions among many states on Europe\u2019s southern periphery \u2013 all of which challenge the stability of European governments and societies.3<\/a> At the same time, the foundations of Western cohesion \u2013 collective defense, transatlantic security bonds, and European political and economic integration \u2013 are showing their age and potential fragility. These institutions are not doomed to failure or on the verge of disintegration, but neither can their continued success be taken for granted. Within the institutions and national capitals of NATO and the EU, there is no clarity about how to respond to the challenges of a strategic environment that has become unstable.<\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n \n More Research Division Publications…<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NDC Research Paper 18: NATO strategy: integrating defense and collaborative security, by Schuyler Foerster and Jeffrey A. 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\nCold War political-military Alliance was the essential pillar of security that underpinned a
\nbroader movement toward European integration and transcended the nationalist tensions
\nthat had spawned two world wars in the twentieth century. With the end of the Cold War,
\nboth NATO and the European Union (EU) \u2013 together comprising the heart of what we
\ncall \u201cthe West\u201d in this paper \u2013 saw their boundaries and influence increase as each adapted
\nto a new geopolitical reality rather than collapse following the demise of the Soviet Union
\nand its empire in eastern Europe.<\/p>\n
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\nCharlemagne, \u201cLessons from history 100 years after the Armistice\u201d, The Economist<\/em>, 8 November 2018, www.economist.com\/europe\/2018\/11\/08\/lessons-from-history-100-years-after-the-armistice<\/a>\n<\/div>\n
\nPresident George H.W. Bush first outlined this vision \u2013 and this oft-repeated phrase \u2013 in a speech in Mainz, Germany, 31 May 1989. See \u201cA Europe whole and free\u201d, US Diplomatic Mission to Germany press release, https:\/\/usa.usembassy.de\/etexts\/ga6-890531.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe challenges to NATO stability from the \u201cSouth\u201d are qualitatively different than the issues that are the focus of this study, except insofar as they threaten Alliance cohesion and contribute to disparate threat perceptions among Allies. See J.A. Larsen and K. Koehler, \u201cProjecting stability: NATO\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 mission to the South\u201d, in E. Cusumano and S. Hofmai er (eds.), Projecting resilience across the Mediterranean<\/em>, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2019, https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-23641-0_3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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