Please join CSIS and the International Security Program for a conversation on the potential military and budgetary implications of future NATO expansion.

Past NATO expansion helped create a Europe whole, free and at peace, but future expansion, should it occur, faces a hostile and militarily revitalized Russia. What might be the military requirements and resulting budget costs of extending NATO’s Article 5 commitment to countries such as Ukraine, Georgia or Bosnia-Herzegovina, which are actively seeking NATO membership or even Sweden and Finland, about which there has been analysis and speculation about membership? How might NATO incorporate such considerations into its decision-making?

Speakers

John Gordon, Senior Researcher, RAND Corporation

Emma Ashford, Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, The Atlantic Council

Mark Cancian, Senior Advisor, International Security Program