NATO’s Enemies Within
How Democratic Decline Could Destroy the Alliance
By Celeste A. Wallander
NATO today faces multiple challenges. Terrorists have attacked European capitals, migration is putting pressure on border and homeland security systems, Russia is both able and willing to use military force and other instruments of influence in Europe, and U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap the alliance altogether. But the most serious problem is not one of these obvious threats; rather, it is the breakdown of liberal democracy within the alliance itself.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-06-14/natos-enemies-within?cid=otr-pitch-NATOs_enemies_within-062118
