A Threat-Based Strategy for NATO’s Southern Flank

NATO’s Southern flank poses a set of unique challenges to the alliance, with complex and diverse threats from both state and nonstate actors. This environment calls for a policy response framework that reflects the heterogeneity of the landscape. Achieving this aim will require building on existing foundations, adjusting domestic narratives, and revisiting the questions of priorities and burden sharing. NATO allies will need to reach a political consensus to overcome the threat of an introverted Western world accompanied by adverse consequences for global and regional security.

Carnegie Europe: A Threat-Based Strategy for NATO’s Southern Flank, June 2016 http://carnegieendowment.org/files/NATO_Southern_Flank.pdf

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