The 2024 Washington Summit is an upcoming meeting of the heads of state and government of the thirty-two members of NATO, their partner countries, and the European Union, taking place July 9-11 in the United States.
During the previous Vilnius summit in 2023, it was reaffirmed that NATO faces risks from all strategic directions, resuming attention towards the southern region, an area plagued by asymmetric threats, instability, conflicts, illegal trafficking, climate change, terrorism and hybrid operations. Russia is now identified as the most significant threat to Allied security, but there is also systemic competition with countries like China, which seek to undermine the rules-based international order.
Among the main themes that will be developed in preparation for the Washington summit are the maintenance and refinement of political consensus, the centrality of NATO as the main provider of international security and the reflection on the evolving role of the Alliance. This includes strengthening the defense industrial and technological base, restoring nuclear and conventional deterrence and a 360° security approach.
NATO intends to strengthen and expand existing partnerships to prevent and manage crises that affect the stability of many European allies and partners and secure access routes to the Indian Ocean in an emerging Indo-Pacific perspective.
On 8 July an important conference on strategies and cornerstones in the Alliance will be held in Rome, at the Center for Advanced Studies for Defense. To understand the scale of the challenges on the horizon, while awaiting events, Thursday 4 July at 12.00, in a live broadcast of the column ON AIR defense, we meet the director of NATO Defense College Foundation, Alexander Politi, political and strategic analyst, professor of Geopolitics, Geoeconomics and Intelligence.
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