The long wait is nearly over. When the 28 member states of the Alliance meet at the Lisbon Summit on 19 November they will unveil a new Strategic Concept, which will guide NATO’s activities over the next 10 years. The broad outlines of the Concept have been well trailed in advance. It will reconfirm NATO's core mission— the territorial defence of all Allies— but also stress the need for the Alliance to modernise its defence concepts and capabilities in view of new security challenges.
There is widespread agreement that 9/11 and the economic crash are part of a profoundly changed global security environment. In an increasingly multi-polar world, weak states are posing as much danger as strong ones and non-state actors are now significant players, either for good or ill. New commons are opening up, such as cyber-space, and governance arrangements have struggled to keep pace. Will NATO be sufficiently reconfigured after Lisbon to reflect this changed strategic landscape?
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