Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2024

Publication Title

Alliances and Partnerships in a Complex and Challenging Security Environment

Pages

213-223

Conference Name

Alliances and Partnerships in a Complex and Challenging Security Environment, 11-13 March 2024, Norfolk, VA

Abstract

[Introduction] "A constructive treatment of Europe's present-day problems calls for historical thinking which is something more than mere historical knowledge," wrote historian Hajo Holborn about the political collapse of Europe. Historical thinking views the moment as a combination of Saint Augustine's "three presents" - of things past and things future as well as of things present. Admittedly, it is on all three accounts that current conditions now look bleak on both sides of the Atlantic. At home, the constitutional order is at risk in the United States and other Western democracies, pending the next national election; abroad, the postwar institutional order embraced by at least half the world has collapsed after 30 years of overlapping and failed transitions under four distinct U.S. presidents since George H.W. Bush (1991-2021). What went wrong? And what comes next, on the way to the 100th anniversary of the 1941 Atlantic Charter that changed the couse of the twentieth century?

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© 2024 SACT NATO HQ - 7857 Blandy Road, Suite 100, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. All Rights Reserved.

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Comments

Bibliographic information: Editors: Regina Karp, Richard W. Maass.

ISBN: 978-1-954445-03-1

Original Publication Citation

Serfaty, S. (2024) Nato past 75: Moving into a twenty years' crisis, 2021-2041. In R. Karp & R. W. Maass (Eds.), Alliances and partnerships in a complex and challenging security environment (pp. 213-223). NATO Allied Command Transformation. https://www.act.nato.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NATO-AC24-Compendium.pdf#page=213

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