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Was Sweden ever Neutral?
When Sweden finally does join NATO – which is likely to happen later this year, it will mean the end of over 200 years of supposed ‘neutrality’. But was Sweden ever really neutral? Jason Pack and Karl Karim Zakhour explore for the NDCF.
No More Neutrality: NATO and the Twilight of Swedish Exceptionalism
Jason Pack & Karl Karim Zakhour write for The National Interest on how NATO membership signifies expedience at the expense of a self-aggrandising national myth that has become increasingly difficult to sustain.
Turkey’s Standoff With NATO Isn’t Over Yet
Finland and Sweden's NATO memberships have gone through for now, but Turkey’s standoff with NATO isn’t over yet as Burcu Ozcelik explains in Syndication Bureau.
Will peace in the Balkans last?
Helena Ivanov writes for The Post by UnHerd on how a flare-up on the Serbia-Kosovo border could destabilise Europe, and what the EU must do to prevent this.
The west must work with Russia to save the Arctic
Jason Pack writes for The Financial Times that the lack of strong collective action approaches towards the climate crisis is a crucial component in our era of disorder, and that the West must work with Russia to save the Arctic.
If the West looks away now, Russia WILL triumph.
David Patrikarakos writes for The Daily Mail: Ukraine is losing hundreds of troops a day and yesterday another vital city fell. Yet the EU still seems to care more about Putin's gas.
Turkey — NATO’s Disruptive Ally
Of all the countries playing a part in the Ukraine crisis, Turkey is perhaps the most difficult to read. Aslı Aydıntaşbaş speaks to Arthur Snell on Doomsday Watch to discuss what Turkey and its president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are trying to achieve.
NATO – An Alliance Revived?
As Sweden and Finland apply to join NATO, ending decades of military neutrality, how has Putin's invasion revived an alliance described as 'Braindead' by Emmanuel Macron two years ago? Lord Peter Ricketts joins Arthur Snell to discuss for Doomsday Watch.
Vladimir Putin Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap
Brian Klaas writes for The Atlantic on how and why Putin, a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic ‘genius’, miscalculated badly by invading Ukraine.
Is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine?
David Patrikarakos writes for The Spectator that the West needs to act soon if they are to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, freeze Kremlin assets, coordinate and alliance, and step up. But will they?
Terrorist and Armed Groups in the Fezzan-Sahel Region: Recruitment and Communication Tactics
Stefano Marcuzzi and Jason Pack’s report for the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence overviews the affiliations of some of the main ethnic groups and tribes in southern Libya and their involvement in terrorism and people-smuggling.
The Beirut tragedy should jolt regional powers into helping Lebanon. It won’t
Arthur Snell explains in The Article that following the explosion in Beiruit outsiders are seeking to control and manipulate Lebanon, and while regional actors should be stepping in, they won’t.
What is Britain’s place in the world?
Arthur Snell writes for The Article that the UK needs to reassess its role in a volatile world where America no longer chooses to lead the western alliance, but is happy to commit acts that put that alliance under strain.
America’s allies despise Trump — and that’s a threat to NATO
Brian Klaas writes for The Washington Post on how Trump’s deepening unpopularity in the other countries of the West is becoming as much of a threat to NATO as to Trump himself.
NATO-EU maritime cooperation: for what strategic effect?
Stefano Marcuzzi’s NATO Defense College Policy Brief 7-18 assesses that cooperation is essential to a coordinated response to a variety of Mediterranean issues, including terrorist threats, the protracted conflicts in the MENA, and the refugee emergency.