Reinventing NATO
The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago this May was initially viewed as a mere "progress report" on the programs that were agreed upon in Lisbon in 2010. But, in light of the political and economic events that have occurred since then, the Chicago summit will have to take steps towards reinventing NATO itself.
ROME – This month, NATO will hold its next summit in Chicago. Unlike European Union summits, which take place almost monthly, NATO’s are infrequent. This helps to explain the inflated rhetoric that surrounds them: the November 2010 summit in Lisbon, for example, was described as nothing less than “the most important in NATO’s history.” Will the Chicago summit prove to be an exception to this rule?
ROME – This month, NATO will hold its next summit in Chicago. Unlike European Union summits, which take place almost monthly, NATO’s are infrequent. This helps to explain the inflated rhetoric that surrounds them: the November 2010 summit in Lisbon, for example, was described as nothing less than “the most important in NATO’s history.” Will the Chicago summit prove to be an exception to this rule?