Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "This Week's NATO Summit Will Shape Bush's Legacy."
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Julianne Smith, director of the CSIS Europe Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "This Week's NATO Summit Will Shape Bush's Legacy."
KIEV, UKRAINE -- President Bush is traveling roughly 100,000 miles on eight trips overseas this year, wrestling with the intractable issues of the Middle East and a relationship with China that has grown increasingly troubled at the end of his tenure.
Against that backdrop, said Julianne Smith, a Europe expert at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the administration is ready to order up more global missions and put on NATO's plate "new threats, new challenges."
But, she said, France and others believe that "the alliance should step back, focus on its traditional mission of collective defense and security in the Euro-Atlantic area, and not get ahead of itself and be too ambitious with its vision and in crafting . . . where it's going to go in the next 10 to 20 years."
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