Judy Dempsey
Friday, June 17, 2016 - 07:41
Tinatin Khidasheli does not hide her impatience with NATO. As defense minister of Georgia, she has spent the past several months lobbying NATO members to grant her country a “membership action plan,” or MAP. Yet when NATO holds its summit in Warsaw on July 8-9, Georgia can expect little. A Georgian MAP will not be on the agenda.
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 06:13
The European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) is not a doomed concept, but rather a determined commitment.
Monday, September 29, 2014 - 07:04
The deal was done on September 5 during the NATO summit in Wales. U.S. President Barack Obama got the backing he wanted to confront the Islamic State, or IS. A group of European countries agreed to provide some kind of military support to the United States as it prepared to carry out aerial bombardments of IS targets. But NATO as a military alliance was not going to get involved. It was going to stay at home. Coalitions would take its place.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 06:12
Relations between Russia and NATO have been strained for a long time — long before the start of the crisis in Ukraine. In April 2008, President Vladimir Putin attended the NATO summit in Bucharest. The atmosphere among the allies was tense. The United States' outgoing Bush administration had wanted NATO leaders to offer the Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Georgia and Ukraine. That would have put them on a direct path to joining NATO.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 09:23
Judy Asks: What Could Bring Stability to The Middle East