"The Future of US and European Security: Is NATO Worth Keeping?"

Created in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sprung from American and Western European fears of Communist takeover. But after the Communist bloc collapsed, the NATO alliance expanded in the 1990s, which some critics called a mistake. Current presidential candidates also have sharply differing views of NATO. Is NATO still essential for American national security? 

Proponents: 

Justin Logan, Cato Institute

Justin Logan is the director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is an expert on U.S. grand strategy, international relations theory, and American foreign policy. His current research focuses on three subjects: the failure of U.S. efforts at burden sharing in NATO; the shifting balance of power in Asia; and the limited relevance of the Middle East to U.S. national security.

He has authored numerous policy studies and articles on topics including international relations theory, U.S.-China policy, U.S.-Russia policy, stabilization and reconstruction operations, and the policy approaches to a nuclear Iran. His articles have appeared in International Security, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, the Harvard International Review, Orbis, and the Foreign Service Journal, among others.

Logan holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from American University.

Paul Miller, Georgetown University

As a scholar, Dr. Miller is a political theorist and political scientist focusing on international affairs, the American experiment, and America's role in the world. He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He serves as co-chair of the Global Politics and Security concentration in the MSFS program. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

As a practitioner, Dr. Miller served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff; worked as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency; and served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.

He is also the author of Just War and Ordered Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and American Power and Liberal Order (Georgetown University Press, 2016). Miller taught at The University of Texas at Austin and the National Defense University and worked at the RAND Corporation prior to his arrival at Georgetown.