SIPRI is proud to announce a package deal of recent supplies reflecting on the upcoming NATO anniversary and the latest accession of two new members—Finland and Sweden—to the transatlantic alliance.
Video interviews with Jan Eliasson and Jan Egeland
Within the newest additions to SIPRI’s Dialog video sequence, two of the Nordic area’s most outstanding diplomats talk about the implications of Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership—for NATO and for the brand new members’ outstanding roles in worldwide affairs.
Ambassador Jan Eliasson, a former Swedish Overseas Minister and United Nations Deputy Secretary-Basic, and the Chair of SIPRI’s Governing Board from 2017 to 2022, talks about Sweden’s contributions to worldwide peace and safety, the troublesome choice to hitch NATO, and his hopes for Sweden’s future function in NATO and Nordic cooperation.
Jan Egeland, former State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry for Overseas Affairs, affords his ideas on how Sweden and Finland ought to method NATO membership, drawing on Norway’s experiences as a founder member of the alliance, in addition to on the unfulfilled potential of Nordic cooperation.
A brand new want for some previous concepts
Additionally launched for the NATO anniversary is a brand new essay by SIPRI Director Dan Smith and Dr Barbara Kunz, head of SIPRI’s European Safety Programme, highlighting classes from chilly struggle diplomacy which might be urgently wanted in the present day: ‘NATO: A brand new want for some previous concepts’.
The authors argue that though a lot has modified for the reason that chilly struggle ended, the basic ideas of the previous are removed from out of date, particularly as NATO’s key activity has as soon as once more change into deterring Russia and defending European territory.
NATO navy spending
Lastly, a topical backgrounder on NATO navy spending will probably be forthcoming quickly after the launch of SIPRI’s new information on World Navy Expenditure in April.