Drifting apart of transatlantic security. The American mark on NATO under Barack Obama
Journal: Logos Verlag Berlin eBooks
Year: 2021

2014 due to Russia's actions in Ukraine and Crimea, the strategic outlook of NATO had already begun to change. The issue of reassurance and increasingly of deterrence once again ranked high on the Alliance's agenda. Acknowledging the changed security environment, the heads of state of NATO agreed on the Readiness Action Plan at the Alliance's summit in Wales in September 2014. 18 While European allies' contributions came more into play at the 2016 Warsaw summit, the provisions of the United Stat