Gene Germanovich

May 7, 2024 | rand.org | Gene Germanovich |Jonathan W. Welburn |Troy Smith

New security challenges from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran have reignited the perennial debate about whether U.S. allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and in Asia are contributing sufficiently to the collective defense of the post–World War II liberal international order. The debate, which had subsided after the Cold War ended, has once again become a high priority in the U.S. foreign policy agenda.