All Not Quiet on NATO’s Eastern Front

The recent efforts to provide robust deterrence and to reinvigorate enlargement within NATO suggest that the July 2016 Warsaw summit was shaping up to be a summit of partial solutions, with the overarching question of what the next steps should be yet to be addressed. The decisions announced at the summit will be publicly welcomed across the region, despite the fact they are but the first phase in what needs to be a series of future initiatives by the United States and its NATO allies to begin addressing in earnest the core question of the region’s deteriorating security.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: NATO Summit, Warsaw, 8-9 July 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/nato-summit-warsaw-8-9-july-2016/

ESO: Background information: Poland Turning Away From Old Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/poland-turning-away-from-old-europe/

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