In one of the last interviews he gave to the press, the late Ronald Asmus reiterated the importance of strategically reassuring NATO’s vulnerable allies against threats coming from inside and outside Europe. The security guarantee provided by Article 5 of the Washington Treaty needs to be strengthened in order to maintain the cohesiveness and the credibility of the Alliance in a new security environment. Ronald Asmus argued that the strategic reassurance of NATO’s Central and Eastern European allies should have been a precondition of reset policy with Russia. More…
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Ronald Asmus: The Little War that Shook the World Răspunde
In March 2010 I interviewed the late Ronald Asmus about his last book published in 2010, A Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia and the future of the West. The book discusses the circumstances that lead to the 2008 South Ossetia War which pitted Georgia against Russia, and its implications for European security.
Which was the message and aim that Russia intended to send to NATO and to the West more generally using as leverage the war with Georgia from August 2008? More…
Ronald Asmus: If the threats change, we must change how we defend ourselves against them Răspunde
Ronald Asmus (1957-2011)
How can you describe the present state of the transatlantic partnership? In early 2003, the notion used was the drift. Now, after president Bush’s second term it seems that we have a revived transatlantic alliance capable of projecting its power far beyond Europe and assuming global missions. On both sides of the Atlantic we have political elites with an advanced euro-Atlantic mindset. In this context, can NATO became once again a tool of first choice, a natural first choice since the alliance is the only interface between the euro-Atlantic societies and the threats of the XXI century? Or coalitions of the willing of NATO members (but not using NATO as a whole) would be a more realistically scenario because we are living in an article 4 world of discretionary commitments (Richard Haas)?
Honoring the Mindset of A Generation: In Memory of Ronald Asmus Răspunde
Richard C. Hollbrooke (1941-2010) și Ronald D. Asmus (1957-2011)
Ronald Asmus was definitely, as Ivan Krastev highlighted in an article for opendemocracy.com, part of a generation “that emerged on the stage in the last days of the Cold War, it was baptized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, inspired by the thinking of dissidents and it never lost its belief in the transformative nature of democracy. It was a generation shaped by the end of the Cold War, the dilemmas of the Balkan wars and the success of the enlargement policy. It is a generation that came to importance at the moment when American power was at its height and American leadership was taken for granted”.
Reasigurarea strategică şi summitul de la Lisabona 1
Octavian Manea a realizat pentru Revista 22 o analiză despre recentul summit NATO de la Lisabona. O preluam şi noi cu permisiunea autorului.
În toată istoria sa, Alianţa a urmat ceea ce analiştii din lumea afacerilor numesc „curba Madonna”- o permanentă creativitate antreprenorială care i-a asigurat de fiecare dată un nou ciclu de viaţă.
NATO – un hotel de lux geopolitic cu servicii de două stele 19
Madeleine Albright si Secretarul General al NATO Anders Fogh Rassmuse la prezentarea oficiala a Raportului privind Conceptul Strategic al NATO. Copyright NATO Press Center
Octavian Manea a publicat în Revista 22 o interesantă analiză privind Raportul Albright privitor la viitorul concept strategic al NATO. Reproducem cu permisiunea autorului articolul în întregime.
Lipsa serviciilor de 5 stele (a infrastructurii de apărare colectivă) şi pentru flancul estic poate fi interpretată în fapt ca absenţa voinţei politice de a veni fiecare în apărarea celuilalt.
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