North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Obama Presidency Oral History Back North Atlantic Treaty Organization Index / Organizations Transcripts Shailagh Murray ...He'd worked for so many years on NATO expansion and nuclea... Cody Keenan ...and scary place. I mean, the fact that NATO might not have immediately made you... Daniel Fried ...we were in Brussels, and we had done a NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization... ...in Brussels, and we had done a NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] ministerial, a foreign ministers... Brian Mosteller ...like a G8 summit, or a G7 summit, or a NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization... ...G8 summit, or a G7 summit, or a NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] summit, where it was good to hav... Frank Rose ...lead working-level official for all the NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization... ...official for all the NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] missile defense work, specificall... ...specifically the decision to move the NATO missile defense policy from on... ...a larger policy designed to defend NATO territory and population center... ...need to—as Ellen Tauscher used to say— NATO -ize the approach, place this firmly i... ...place this firmly in the context of NATO ; because fundamentally, collectiv... ...collective defense is a core NATO mission. Then, finally—and this was ... ...missiles in Eastern Europe and NATO does not have a similar capability... ...bilateral deals, put this in a clear NATO framework. That's what we argued fro... ...Adaptive Approach, was the US and NATO would have a four-phased approach t... ...think, the team, that same day, went to NATO . It was an absolute disaster. I... ...to get it approved by their parliament. NATO allies, they actually liked the EPAA... ...and medium-range threat to European, NATO , and US-deployed forces. I think mos... ...numbers of nonstrategic weapons, and NATO is not our only concern.” You have th... ...legally binding limitations on US and NATO missile defenses. Unless you can solv... Show more... Charles Kupchan ...the time, I do remember there being a NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization... ...I do remember there being a NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] summit—I think this was 2012, I thin... ...in Iraq? Who helped out in Afghanistan? NATO invoked Article Five. NATO soldier... ...Afghanistan? NATO invoked Article Five. NATO soldiers were there. Europe stepped u... ...about European security; because NATO was no longer just about doing ... ...Summit that the president convinced all NATO leaders to agree to the two-percen... ...this, because it's not something that NATO leaders readily wanted to do. And eve... ...such as deploying a new set of NATO forces in the Baltics, putting more U... ...US and Europe hung together—not just in NATO , but very close coordination betwee... ...a proponent of the enlargement of NATO ? No. Why? Because I was concerned tha... ...we have now. Has the enlargement of NATO generally gone well, from th... ...gone well, from the perspective of NATO enlargement? Yes. If we had to do i... ...what the arc of support for NATO was, or how things were shifting ove... ...over that time frame. I think that NATO is an alliance that has enjoyed th... ...of Iraq. But we moved past that, and NATO has been remarkably adept at adaptin... ...recall any fundamental questioning of NATO during my time in the White House. I... ...after the Russians went into Ukraine, NATO enjoyed a new pride of place becaus... ...that President Trump's distaste for NATO , and for alliances in general, hasn'... ...Trump's rumination of withdrawing from NATO , Congress responded by inviting th... ...in some of the maritime operations, got NATO involved. This was seen as a to... Show more... Victoria Nuland ...States permanent representative to NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization... ...permanent representative to NATO [ North Atlantic Treaty Organization ] from 2005 to '08—just as a snapshot... ...there, with the creation of the NATO -Russia relationship. We had to redo i... ...your period as representative to NATO , I understand you had stepped out o... ...years straight through. When my tour at NATO as ambassador was finishing in th... ...me to either stay an extra year at NATO , which would've meant that whe... ...officials around Europe from my NATO days. I knew the Russians well. So the... ... We began by negotiating within the NATO core of nations. And we came up with ... ...allies, twenty-six allies. I know NATO expanded over that period, so I don'... ...into the European project and the NATO project, the newly free nations o... ...Forces] Treaty, strengthening the NATO -Russia relationship. And we alread... ...including the creation of the first NATO -Russia relationship, the Permanen... ...the Permanent Joint Council in '97, as NATO was expanding. The idea was move mor... ...conversation to that forum so that NATO wouldn't be so threatening, these kind... ...about what he was saying about NATO , and that he was loving on Putin an... ...being unclear about his commitment to NATO , etc. So all of that, I think, ha... ...between Greece and Turkey, our two NATO allies. And again, this notion of ... ...He and I were colleagues from my NATO days, so we were great friends. W... ...an international force, to a potential NATO replacement force in which some Turk... ...tensions between Turkey and Greece, two NATO allies. But you increasingly had no... ...that Espen was a friend of mine from NATO days. We had worked together when I wa... ...worked together when I was a deputy at NATO , and then he had gone on to b... ...jobs he had. He would come to NATO a lot. So we were close. We had ... ...could be skinned, including some use of NATO , some use of UN, etc., and we didn'... Show more... Dan Feldman ...And so, it was not just all the NATO allies and Western-developed Europea... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere go to the Transition Transition