IINA: 【Cooperation Between European and Indo-Pacific Powers in the US alliance system project：Policy Paper Vol. 9】 Enhancing Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Theater Cooperation: What Is NATO’s Role?

By Benedetta Berti, Director of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General at NATO

The NATO alliance is adapting to operate effectively in a complex, contested and unpredictable security environment characterized by strategic competition, persistent contestation across the peace-crisis-conflict continuum and pervasive instability. To ensure the security and defense of Allies, NATO needs to be able to credibly tackle multiple, global and interconnected threats and challenges and to account for the impact that conflict, crises and instability in other regions of the world could have on the Euro-Atlantic, its area of responsibility.