Fletcher Forum of World Affairs – Joshua Foust: NATO’s Next Challenge Comes from Within
In an article for the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, ASP fellow Joshua Foust and co-author Iveta Cherneva write about NATO’s next security threat. The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs is the foreign-policy journal published by the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Joshua Foust and Iveta Cherneva are both members of the Young Atlanticist Working Group at the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C.
The NATO block has been a beacon of economic and social prosperity for decades. Now, however, the region is headed toward yet another financial crisis – and with it comes a whole set of security challenges driven by financial uncertainty and social dissatisfaction.
NATO’s next security and unrest threat will be economic and social, and will come from within.
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The world cannot afford Europe forfeiting its security and economic role. If the debt crisis continues to worsen, that might happen. The next generation of leaders has a critical opportunity to keep international obligations – the NATO alliance, as well as developmental and aid commitments by the region – at the forefront of policymaking. To avoid the next security trap, NATO will have to look within.
