NATO's Warsaw Summit: In Brief
Year: 2016

Abstract : The North Atlantic Treaty Organizations (NATOs) 2016 summit was held in Warsaw, Poland, on July 8-9, 2016. The summit was the second meeting of the alliances 28 heads of state and government since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and began providing large-scale military support to separatist forces fighting in Ukraine. Russias actions in Ukraine and Eastern Europe more broadly have upended NATOs post-Cold War transformation from a military alliance focused solely on deterring Russia t