Welcome to a special edition of the MSNBC Daily newsletter. This week, we published a five-part series called "The Future of NATO," featuring five experts on foreign policy and global relations exploring the crises and conflicts over the future of NATO, the U.S. and Europe.
Kristina Spohr — the Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University — took a look at how Vladimir Putin's apologists have misrepresented three words uttered by then-Secretary of State James Baker in 1990 to justify Russia's war on Ukraine.
Joseph Cirincione, longtime national security analyst, warned that President Donald Trump's retrenchment from NATO will lead to greater nuclear proliferation around the globe.
Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, makes the case for E.U. countries to take more responsibility for their own security — and argues that it's well past time that they did so.
Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, asks the crucial question of whether NATO's collective security agreement — Article 5 — is even still in effect.
And last but not least, David Rothkopf, former deputy under secretary of commerce for international trade policy and development in the Clinton administration, lays out how NATO can (and must) prepare for a future where the U.S. is no longer the security backstop for the alliance.
We hope this series of politically diverse ideas and authors provokes a deeper conversation about the rapidly shifting geopolitical dynamics around the globe, and how those dynamics are threatening the U.S.' position as a world leader.
— Anthony L. Fisher, senior editor
