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CARLOS PASCUAL: The massive transformation of NATO as a defense Alliance has forced us to ask the question of whether the process that NATO has gone through to transform itself and to adapt itself is enough. And how that question is addressed is really going to affect the relevance and the viability of the institution and perhaps the very future of the Alliance, and these are some of the questions that we want to begin to get at in this discussion today. But in the real world, they're going to play themselves out as the next NATO summit takes place. The 60th anniversary takes place on April 3rd and 4th. There certainly is no question that NATO needs to evolve, and indeed it has evolved. . .
. . .And still we have to answer the question "why NATO?" and "is it effective -- can it be effective?" And part of the answer is going to depend on what's the threat. How do we understand what NATO is organizing itself against or toward or in prevention of? Is that a global set of threats, which are different from the threats that we've understood and thought of before as major international security threats -- things like climate change or nuclear proliferation or transnational terrorism? And if so, where does NATO fit into that equation, and how does it place itself as an organization?
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