NATO - austerityDefence austerityUS, Europe & NATO
  • Smart but too cautious: How NATO can improve its fight against austerity
    Policy brief by Claudia Major, Christian Mölling, Tomas Valasek, 21 May 2012
    Smart but too cautious: How NATO can improve its fight against austerity
  • Breakfast on 'Is collaboration the answer to defence austerity? Perspectives on UK, France, NATO and the EU'
    Event, 14 March 2012, London
    Breakfast on 'Is collaboration the answer to defence austerity?
  • All alone? What US retrenchment means for Europe and NATO
    Report by François Heisbourg, Wolfgang Ischinger, George Robertson, Kori Schake, Tomas Valasek, 01 March 2012
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  • NATO's big bang
    Bulletin article by Andrew Cottey, 03 December 2001

    In 2002 NATO has a rare opportunity to enhance stability in Eastern Europe and build a new relationship with Russia. At the Prague summit in November, the alliance should offer membership to seven countries - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
  • EU should duplicate NATO assets
    Bulletin article by Kori Schake, 01 June 2001

    Many American policy-makers are worried that the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) could undermine NATO and damage the transatlantic relationship.
  • US missile defence: Strategically sound, politically questionable
    Working paper by Bruno Tertrais, 06 April 2001

    In Europe, both governments and the broad spread of public opinion have been largely sceptical about, or opposed to, missile defence.
  • Europe's military revolution
    Report by Charles Grant, 02 March 2001

    The creation of the single European currency, a revolutionary innovation for the European Union (EU), has provoked tumultuous debate across the continent and beyond. Yet the EU's plans for a common defence policy have - thus far - attracted less attention.
  • European defence: The next steps
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 October 2000

    Last year, the Kosovo air war highlighted the impotence of Europe's armed forces.The Americans provided more than three-quarters of the bombs dropped, and most of the advanced communications equipment.
  • Europe's military ambitions
    Bulletin article by Klaus Naumann, 01 June 2000

    The European Union's 'Headline Goal', agreed at the Helsinki Summit in December 1999, calls for the creation of a 60,000-strong rapid-reaction force by 2003. Turning that goal into reality is extremely difficult.
  • Intimate relations: Can Britain play a leading role in European defence - and keep its special links to US intelligence?
    Working paper by Charles Grant, 05 May 2000

    One of the most constant features of the geopolitical landscape is the special relationship between London and Washington on intelligence matters. One of the most rapidly changing and unpredictable elements of that landscape is the emergence of a European Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
  • Europe and missile defence
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 03 April 2000

    On each side of the Atlantic a new defence initiative is seen from the other side as unnecessary, confusing and worrying: the Europeans' plan for a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and the Americans' plan for National Missile Defense (NMD).