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Grey Anderson — NATO’s twin dynamics—eastward expansionism within Europe, aggregated military operations outside—have brought it to the brink of a major international war, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But what is Washington’s real interest in the Alliance?

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Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine has undermined some of the fundamental assumptions underlying the security of Europe through much of the post-World War II era. As a result, several European nations have begun to consider dramatic changes in how they approach national security, both individually and collectively. To better understand how the war in Ukraine is reshaping

SOF Digital Discussion: Is America Back? Event information Contact Rageh Omaar, International Affairs Editor, Independent Television News, London; Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University; and Constanze Stelzenmuller, Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution; in conversation with Niamh King, Deputy Director of the Aspen Stra...

Vail Symposium convenes locally while thinking globally. On Thursday, the Vail Symposium presents a free Zoom webinar with experts discussing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is stepping down this year. (Special to the Daily) After 15 years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down in 2021 and her four-term tenure is one of the longest in Germany’s post-war history. But her legacy is complicated. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 4, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Ph.D., a senior fellow in t...

>> those comments were extraordinarily unhelpful. one thing donald trump and i have in common is my mothers ancestors and his fathers ancestors came from the same part of germany and they came for the same reasons, in all likelihood for better opportunity. what he is doing to trans-atlantic relations is simply atrocious. this trans-atlantic relationship is not only the foundation of american national security policy, it is the crown jewel of american diplomacy over these last 70 years. to think ...