NATO Summit Outcome: Preventing a conflict or creating one?0

• International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
• 12/07/2016

The 2016 NATO Summit held in Warsaw has now ended. As expected, one of the main topics on the agenda was NATOs strategic response to Russia, which included debates about tactical troop positioning and other deterrence measures. What the summit – at least publicly – did not address, is the reason for the standoff between NATO and Russia and how NATO plans to prevent it from escalating.