CIAO DATE: 03/02

US Foreign Policy Agenda

 

Volume 4, Number 1, March 1999

NATO's 50th Anniversary (Download the complete issue in PDF format)

Introduction

Focus

• Forging New Ways to Deal With the Challanges of the 21st Century,  an assessment by Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
• NATO's Role in the Next Millennium: Constant and Emerging Goals,  an assessment by Ambassador Marc Grossman, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European Affairs
• Transforming NATO's Defense Capabilities for the 21st Century,  by Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic

Commentary

• NATO in the 21st Century,  by Senator William V. Roth, Jr.
• NATO at Fifty: Future Challanges, Historic Tasks,  by Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Director, Aspen Institute Berlin

Backgrounding the Issue

• What the Polls Say: U.S., European Views on Transatlantic Issues,  compiled by the European Branch, Office of Research and Media Reaction, U.S. Information Agency

Reflections on Nato's First Half Century

• Finding Purpose — And Success — In Bosnia,  by Ambassador Robert E. Hunter, Senior Adviser, RAND, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1993-1998
• Manfred Woerner: Force Behing NATO's Post-Cold Waar Agenda,  by Ambassador William H. Taft, IV, Partner: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to NATO 1989-1992
• Achieving Allied Cooperation on Conventional Defense,  by Ambassador David M. Abshire, Chancellor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1983-1987

A Guide to Additional Reading

• NATO's 50th Anniversary: Article Alert  (Abstracts of current articles)
• NATO's 50th Anniversary: Bibliography  (Spotlighting other views)
• NATO's 50th Anniversary: Key Internet Sites  (Internet links to resources on related issues)