On this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson is joined by Kerry Buck, Ivo Daalder and Rich Hooker to discuss NATO's role as we approach 75 years of the alliance's existence, and the prospect of its future with the addition of Sweden and the threat of American withdrawal.

Participants' bios

Kerry, Ivo, and Rich are all members of the Alphen Group that focuses on trans-Atlantic security.

- CGAI Fellow Kerry Buck served as Canada’s ambassador to NATO and prior to that as Political Director.

- Ivo Daalder served as US ambassador to NATO. President of the Chicago Global Affairs Council he hosts their weekly podcast ‘World Review’.

- Rich Hooker is a Fellow at the Atlantic Council after a distinguished career in the US Army with later service in the National Security Council.

Host bio:

Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson

Read & Watch:

- "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma", by Mustafa Suleyman: https://www.amazon.ca/Coming-Wave-Technology-Twenty-first-Centurys/dp/0593593952

- "The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall", by Eliot A. Cohen: https://www.amazon.ca/Hollow-Crown-Shakespeare-Leaders-Rise/dp/1541644867

- "The Ashes of London", by Andrew Taylor: https://www.amazon.ca/Ashes-London-Andrew-Taylor/dp/0008119090

- "A Life in the American Century", by Joseph S. Nye Jr.: https://www.amazon.ca/Life-American-Century-Joseph-Nye/dp/1509560688

- Commissario Brunetti Series, by Donna Leon: https://www.goodreads.com/series/50419-commissario-brunetti

Recording Date: February 28, 2024.

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Produced by Joe Calnan. Music credits to Drew Phillips.