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Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Summit's Big Question: Whither NATO?"
In Afghanistan, it is battling al-Qaida and Taliban. In newly independent Kosovo, it's up against Serbian protesters armed with firebombs and grenades. And behind the scenes, it is helping to quell the violence in Iraq and to track down suspected war criminals in Bosnia.
NATO, its chief insists, has no ambitions to become a "global policeman." But the military alliance born of the Cold War continues to grow and face new challenges.
"The problem with Afghanistan is that it's eclipsing the summit just as it did in Riga in 2006," when NATO held its last big meeting, said Julianne Smith, Europe program director for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. [...] Read the article
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