... understands that the price of US security guarantees in the event of a direct conflict, for example, with Russia, is quite small. But the American “security umbrella” for Europe concerns, first of all, European political elites, for whom participation in NATO guarantees that they will never again have to worry that their managerial failures leading to revolutionary consequences, writes
Timofei Bordachev
.
This article is the first part of reflections on the future of international cooperation.
In July ...
... leadership, disciplining previously not-always compliant European and Asian allies. In this sense, the United States has become significantly stronger than it was some four or five years ago, when French President Emmanuel Macron allowed himself to describe NATO as a brain-dead alliance.
After the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, NATO quite unexpectedly acquired two new members that has kept their neutral status for many decades. Incorporation of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Alliance ...
We are likely to see a rapid horizontal and vertical proliferation of INF-range weapons, and the corresponding risks of escalation
In July 2024, on the margins of the NATO summit in Washington, official statements were made about the
deployment
of U.S. intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (“long-range fires”) in Germany in 2026, as well as about the launch of the Franco-German-Polish-Italian program for ...
The ICE alliance has more geopolitical and geostrategic rationale than economic
On July 11, 2024, on the margins of the NATO Summit in Washington, the US, Canada and Finland announced a new trilateral consortium—the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact—with an explicit intention to challenge Russia and China in icebreaker construction and deployment. It is ...
... part of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. In other words, Serbs were against dividing Serbians from Serbia and Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such sentiments continue to be shared to this day. However, under strong pressure from NATO – including a two-week bombardment against the Army of Republika Srpska, after which the Bosniak-Croat offensive against the Republic of Srpska began – Serbs were forced to give up their inital goals and demands. They accepted to remain part ...
... fixated on money issues.
Western Europe’s fears have to do with something else – an uncertainty of a much more general nature. In 2022, the EU bet on America by refusing to take an independent line on the Ukraine conflict. Beyond the rhetoric, NATO’s
“unprecedented unity,”
in practice, means that the course is set by the strongest member state, both militarily and politically. And the Old World did not do this under pressure from its senior partner, but voluntarily, because it didn’t ...
While the US-led group enforces rigid bloc discipline, the world’s emerging powers extol flexibility
Two events – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pomp-filled visit to Moscow and the 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington – coincided this week. The coincidence is remarkable because they illustrate two contrasting models for organising inter-state relations. The direction of world politics will largely depend on which of them prevails.
Russian-Indian ...
Moscow joined the NATO’s Partnership for Peace program 30 years ago, but today there is neither partnership nor peace
Russia’s then Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrey Kozyrev signed up to NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in Brussels on June 22, 1994. This marked ...
... food security, and the situation threatens to worsen dramatically.
Source: Reuters
American Interests in the Conflict
From the American perspective, the Ukraine conflict offers several strategic advantages. First, it reinforces US leadership within NATO and demonstrates its military capabilities. Second, the conflict creates a lucrative market for American arms manufacturers, who supply weapons to both Ukraine and NATO allies worried about Russian aggression. This military-industrial complex plays ...
... able to replicate in their interstate relations the practices established to coordinate the efforts of the United States and Europe in suppressing the rest of the world. Among the most successful international organizations of the modern world, the G7, NATO, and the European Union stand out. However, these organizations are highly specific in their objectives and internal structure, aiming to safeguard the special rights of member countries in their relations with other nations. This is why various ...
