Preventing NATO-Russian Escalation (John McColl, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/preventing-nato-russia-escalation-by-john-mccoll-2016-12

How NATO can help Syrian civilians (Daoud Kuttab, Hazm Almazouni, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/nato-syrian-civilians-161023085223992.html

This Is Why NATO Is Stumbling Towards a Crisis (Michael Cecire, The National Interest)

NATO’s current posture of retrenchment is a withdrawal from the Alliance’s founding raison d’etre.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-nato-stumbling-towards-crisis-17942

Russian MP says one should not forget about Ankara’s membership in NATO (TASS)

http://tass.ru/en/politics/893430

The South Caucasus: United, and Divided, by NATO (Eduard Abrahamyan, The National Interest)

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-south-caucasus-united-divided-by-nato-16534

Podcast: The 1990 U.S. Pledge to the Soviet Union on NATO Expansion (Micah Zenko, CFR)

http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2016/05/17/podcast-the-1990-us-pledge-to-the-soviet-union-on-nato-expansion-shifrinson/

Poland’s President Seeks Stronger NATO Presence in Europe’s East (Atlantic Council)

‘Real deterrence means real presence,’ says Polish President Andrzej Duda

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Ashish Kumar Sen is a staff writer at the Atlantic Council.

NATO and Russia Return to the Nuclear Precipice (Nick Ritchie, Peter Rutland, The National Interest)

In one year’s time, it is possible that Donald Trump will be sitting in the White House. Across Europe, too, nationalist leaders are on the rise.

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Is it Time for America to Quit NATO? (Ted Galen Carpenter, The National Interest)

NATO will celebrate its sixty-seventh anniversary in April. Instead of being an occasion for the usual expression of mind-numbing clichés about the alliance’s enduring importance both to U.S. security and world peace, it should become an opportunity for a long overdue assessment of whether the NATO commitment truly serves America’s best interests in the twenty-first century. There is mounting evidence that it does not.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/it-time-america-quit-nato-15615

NATO’s Syria War Footing Under Cover of Migrant Crisis (Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture Foundation)

The US-led NATO alliance is dispatching warships to the Mediterranean to allegedly help ease Europe’s refugee crisis. However, a closer look at the naval vessels in the NATO mission shows that this is no refugee rescue attempt – but rather a full-on war mobilization.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/02/15/nato-syria-war-footing-under-cover-migrant-crisis.html

End NATO Now (Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture Foundation)

The continuation of NATO, after its counterpart the Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, is an insanity that’s driving the world inexorably toward World War III.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/02/13/end-nato-now.html

Turkey and NATO: What lies ahead? (Aspenia online)

http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/turkey-and-nato-what-lies-ahead

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Sweden Ponders NATO Membership: Tough Call (Andrei Akulov, Strategic Culture Foundation)

Sweden is stepping up its military capabilities and exercises as an element of its anti-Russia policy. It will increase the number of training events with NATO, including those on Swedish NATO territory, Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist told Dagens Nyheter on June 26.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/07/19/sweden-ponders-nato-membership-tough-call.html