| NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder September 2022 | As September ends, the Global Enduring Disorder continues to permeate international affairs. India and China's shifting positions towards Putin's War in Ukraine were on display at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, indicating that many of the world's disordering powers are increasingly tired of Putin's war. Some developments are giving us measured optimism, such as Ukraine's recent gains in the Northeast with the Kharkiv counteroffensive and the US Federal Reserve's proactive moves to order the global economy by clamping down on inflationary pressures. Less noteworthy but still encouraging are murmurings that AUKUS is functioning effectively as a collective deterrence pact in the Asia-Pacific region and that NATO's ongoing expansion to Sweden and Finland is already revitalising security collaboration and long term-planning. On the worrying side are questions around the damage Britain's new Prime Minister could do to US-UK relations via her plans to scrap the North Ireland Protocol and her announcements of tax cuts and inflationary borrowing and spending, which have tanked the pound. Even more distressing is Italy's election of a far-right neo-populist in Giorgia Meloni. As always, we are here to provide analysis, insight, and potential solutions to our Enduring Disorder and hope you will engage with the work we have been doing to unpack this era. | | New Perspectives on Disorder | ▪ Was Sweden ever Neutral?: When Sweden does join NATO, likely to happen later this year, it will mean the end of over 200 years of supposed ‘neutrality’. But was Sweden ever really neutral? Jason Pack and Karl Karim Zakhour (Project Fellow, Neo-Populism) explore for the NATO Defense College Foundation. Read more...
| ▪ | Was Sweden ever Neutral?: When Sweden does join NATO, likely to happen later this year, it will mean the end of over 200 years of supposed ‘neutrality’. But was Sweden ever really neutral? Jason Pack and Karl Karim Zakhour (Project Fellow, Neo-Populism) explore for the NATO Defense College Foundation. Read more... | | ▪ Will Putin’s gamble pay off?: There can be no retreat — either for Ukraine, or for the international order we have so painstakingly built over the seven decades, since the last time a tyrant unleashed industrial war on the European continent. David Patrikarakos (Project Lead, Unregulated Cyberspace) reports on the war in Ukraine for UnHerd. Read more...
| ▪ | Will Putin’s gamble pay off?: There can be no retreat — either for Ukraine, or for the international order we have so painstakingly built over the seven decades, since the last time a tyrant unleashed industrial war on the European continent. David Patrikarakos (Project Lead, Unregulated Cyberspace) reports on the war in Ukraine for UnHerd. Read more... | | ▪ On Russia, Serbia is playing a dangerous game: Serbia is finding itself in an increasingly precarious position. The gulf between the EU and Russia is widening, and soon enough it may be forced to pick sides. Helena Ivanov (Project Fellow, NATO & its Adversaries) writes for UnHerd. Read more...
| ▪ | On Russia, Serbia is playing a dangerous game: Serbia is finding itself in an increasingly precarious position. The gulf between the EU and Russia is widening, and soon enough it may be forced to pick sides. Helena Ivanov (Project Fellow, NATO & its Adversaries) writes for UnHerd. Read more... | | ▪ Putin’s Choices in Ukraine are Going from Bad to Worse: Russia is testing whether its people have the stomach to fight, but as social media gets flooded with refusals to accept mobilisation, is Vladimir Putin running out of means to cling on to power? Stepan Stepanenko (Project Fellow, Neo-Populism) writes for International Policy Digest. Read more...
| ▪ | Putin’s Choices in Ukraine are Going from Bad to Worse: Russia is testing whether its people have the stomach to fight, but as social media gets flooded with refusals to accept mobilisation, is Vladimir Putin running out of means to cling on to power? Stepan Stepanenko (Project Fellow, Neo-Populism) writes for International Policy Digest. Read more... | | ▪ We are grateful to our colleagues at the NATO Defense College Foundation who are working with us on this project - you can find us listed as part of their research under 'Special Projects':
| ▪ | We are grateful to our colleagues at the NATO Defense College Foundation who are working with us on this project - you can find us listed as part of their research under 'Special Projects': | | ▪ If you have not already, we would like to invite you to follow NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder on Twitter (@NATOfightsback) and LinkedIn. We post updates on articles as they are released, keeping track of recent developments of the Enduring Disorder.
| ▪ | If you have not already, we would like to invite you to follow NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder on Twitter (@NATOfightsback) and LinkedIn. We post updates on articles as they are released, keeping track of recent developments of the Enduring Disorder. | | ▪ While the NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder site and social media accounts continue to provide you with analysis on this era, you may be aware that our main push is towards the podcast. Our interviews with high-profile historians, diplomats, and officials are ongoing and early episodes are now being edited - be sure to stay tuned and visit our site for more updates. You'll be hearing from us this Autumn/Winter.
| ▪ | While the NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder site and social media accounts continue to provide you with analysis on this era, you may be aware that our main push is towards the podcast. Our interviews with high-profile historians, diplomats, and officials are ongoing and early episodes are now being edited - be sure to stay tuned and visit our site for more updates. You'll be hearing from us this Autumn/Winter. | | Thanks for reading, clicking, listening, and engaging. We hope we will be writing to you from a more ‘ordered’ world next month, but don’t hold your breath. Jason Pack & the Global Enduring Disorder team. | |
