For the past two years, leaders of the 28 North Atlantic Treaty Organization member nations have been drafting a new strategic concept for the alliance. With nato’s original raison d’être having been long outmoded, since the end of the Cold War 20 years ago the alliance has struggled to justify its continuance.
Hence the current moves to reinvent nato. What is its role in today’s present disordered world, where no single nation dominates the global power equation?

