18 December 2018
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What is NATO for these days, anyway?
Ivo Daalder, coauthor of the new book The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership and a former US ambassador to NATO, answers the question.
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- Ivo’s new book, The Empty Throne
- Trump’s foreign policy: zero-sum and transactional
- What is NATO for these days, anyway?
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