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Even under Trump’s (non-) leadership, NATO members continue familiar pattern of servility
August 27, 2018
For a remarkably honest and clear-eyed assessment of post-Cold war NATO, one need look no further than Tony Wood’s article in the New York Review of Books: Rhetorical differences aside, successive US governments have always been clear that NATO is not a gathering of peers. Its function has been to bind European states into an […]
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Nuclear Deterrence does not deter.
January 22, 2018
“Nuclear deterrence is a myth and a lethal one at that. Nuclear deterrence continues to dominate international relations. Yet there is no proof it ever worked, nor that it ever will… “(David P. Barash, Guardian.com, 14 January 2018) According to recent articles in the New York Times and Huffington Post, President Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review […]
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Chris Westdal: Now is the time for diplomacy with Russia
July 12, 2016
We wrote about Canada’s ill-advised decision to establish and lead a rotational multinational NATO battlegroup in Latvia in our blog post of 30 June entitled Trudeau government: Room for improvement on key security issues. In that post we noted how the German Foreign Minister has variously described NATO’s actions in deploying four battlegroups on Russia’s […]
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