President Donald Trump’s transactional approach to alliance burden sharing has resulted in US alliance partners increasing their contributions for collective defence requirements.
Turkiye effectively leveraged its NATO membership to secure benefits aligned with its defence, counter-terrorism and foreign policy priorities, vis-à-vis Sweden’s accession bid.
Japan’s proposal to host a NATO liaison office in Tokyo is facing objections from NATO members like France, who view it as a distraction from the alliance’s core task of ensuring security in Europe.
The future of Europe’s security architecture will depend largely on how well it blends its dependence and deepening with NATO on the one hand and its quest for strategic autonomy on the other.
India needs to strengthen its existing bilateral relations with all the Arctic countries and continue to re-emphasize its call for peaceful resolution of Arctic disputes.
While Turkey’s nuclear ambitions are not new, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's nuclear rhetoric is in the backdrop of Turkey's deteriorating regional security situation.