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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: NATO on my watch: Is the military alliance fit for purpose?
Description: NATO’s power has been thrown into sharp focus amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How does it operate – and what has it got right and wrong of late? Alex Andreou is joined by Mark Webber, a professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham who is co-authoring the book What’s Wrong with NATO and How to Fix It, to discuss the military alliance.
“Whenever NATO acts it is acting as the aggregate of its members, that is its great strength.”
“What NATO has done very well is it has strengthened its own defences.”
“NATO enlargement is not a project th...