Crossroads of Europe

NATO: the sole guarantor of European security?

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaking at a press conference given from Brussels on June 16, 2022. AP - Olivier Matthys

By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

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The Russian invasion in Ukraine relegitimized NATO, this alliance of European and North American countries created after the Second World War, in the midst of the Cold War, in order to collectively ensure their security against the USSR.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has become, since February 24 and the start of the war in Ukraine, the bulwark against Vladimir Putin's Russia.

As proof, the express membership requests from Finland and Sweden, two countries which, for decades, had opted for non-alignment.

So is NATO the sole guarantor of European security? 

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Does the war in Ukraine sound the death knell for European defence, or is it an opportunity to relaunch it?

With the guests: 

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professor of European History at the University of La Sorbonne and author of

published by CNRS editions 

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research director at Iris, former French ambassador to Russia, and who has just published

 published by Eyrolles. 

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