NATO

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Trump's Removal of Troops from Germany Follows a Trend

  by Michael Creswell

  While Trump's decision to halve the contingent of US troops in Germany has drawn bipartisan condemnation, critics should recognize that whether the decision is wise or foolish for today's context, it is in line with decades of efforts to shift the burdens of collective security onto NATO allies. 

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• 12/8/19
  

  NATO's First Post-Wall Summit 30 Years Later

  by Stephan Kieninger

  Debates over NATO’s purpose are not new. The alliance has always managed to adapt in times of challenges.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/3/19
  

  Books by Garret Martin, Balazs Martonffy, Ronald Suny, and Kelly McFarland Featured in Article on NATO at 50

  by Jeff Inglis

  At 70, is NATO still important? 5 essential reads.

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• SOURCE: The Times
  4//14/19
  

  Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die

  by Niall Ferguson

  A new red army is out to silence debate. We must rise up and resist it.

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• 2/7/19
  

  Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament―Unless They’re Pushed to Do So

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Although the rulers of nuclear-armed nations are usually eager to foster nuclear buildups, substantial public pressure can secure their acceptance of nuclear disarmament.    

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/29
  

  The mistake NATO was formed to correct — and how President Trump is repeating it

  by Gregory Mitrovich

  Allies abandoned one another in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, they paid the price.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  11-13-18
  

  Trump Ridicules French for Losses in World Wars

  He says the U.S. had to rescue them.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7-13-18
  

  How the GOP Embraced the World—And Then Turned Away

  by William I. Hitchcock

  Decades ago, Dwight Eisenhower defeated the isolationist faction of the Republican Party. Now, Trump is toppling his legacy.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7-15-18
  

  Europe’s Dependence on the U.S. Was All Part of the Plan

  by Claire Berlinski

  Postwar U.S. statesmen designed our world order as it is for a reason. They had lived through what happened without it.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-11-18
  

  Trump isn’t the first leader to rattle the world order

  by Kelly McFarland

  History shows us that Trump isn’t the first leader to take a brutish approach to international affairs.

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• 6/17/18
  

  Is the West in Disarray?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  12-12-17
  

  Documents show Gorbachev was assured US wouldn't expand NATO into Central and Eastern Europe

  The documents show that multiple national leaders were considering and rejecting Central and Eastern European membership in NATO as of early 1990 and through 1991.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  5-31-17
  

  HR McMaster claims Trump has strengthened alliances with NATO countries

  by HR McMaster & Gary Cohn

  "A determination to stand up for our people and our way of life deepens our friends’ respect for America."

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• 5-21-17
  

  The World War 1 Lesson Trump Should Keep in Mind as He Heads Off to His First NATO Summit

  by Nick Lloyd

  Disaster ensues when coalitions stop speaking to one another and the members “do their own thing.”

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• 5-14-17
  

  Putin’s Not Making It Easy, but We Need to Understand How He Views NATO and the US

  by Walter G. Moss

  The experts call this strategic empathy. It’s essential.

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• SOURCE: The National Interest
  2-26-17
  

  Scholars debate the future of NATO

  Historian Andrew Bacevich says it should be kept in place, but Europeans should pay for it.

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• 7-24-15
  

  Understanding Russia

  by Walter Laqueur

  Russia may still be to some extent a riddle, but the mystery is not so much in what Russian leaders are doing and thinking, but the way they are misinterpreted by some circles in the West.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10-17-14
  

  Don’t Accept Putin’s Version of History

  by Anne Applebaum

  The West didn’t provoke Russia. It gave it more credit than it deserved.

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• 6-15-14
  

  Our Stale, Unimaginative, and Wrong-Headed Approach to Russia Has Finally Caught Up with Us

  by Walter Moss

  Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 our Russia policy has been one of attempting to capitalize on Russian weakness by strengthening our strategic position at its expense.