{"id":315149,"date":"2026-04-20T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=315149"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:07:34","slug":"nato-allies-security-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/04\/nato-allies-security-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO: Allies\u2019 Security Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/handshake-eu-nato-world-usa.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-315150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/handshake-eu-nato-world-usa-300x257.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/handshake-eu-nato-world-usa-300x257.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/handshake-eu-nato-world-usa-768x658.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/handshake-eu-nato-world-usa.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cGlobal Developments Highlight the Fundamental Reality That the Transatlantic Alliance Is Not Making Europe Safer \u201c<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>17 Apr 2026\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2026\/03\/11\/cv-of-tff-associate-li-xing\/\" >Danish-Chinese professor <\/a><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2026\/03\/11\/cv-of-tff-associate-li-xing\/\" >Li Xing<\/a><\/em> \u2013 who has been at Aalborg University, Denmark, for many years, but is now in China and is also a new <em>TFF Associate<\/em> \u2013 and I have just published this Europe article in the prestigious <em>China Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Towards the end, we also say a few things about what the EU <em>ought<\/em> to do now to navigate more intelligently in the future\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Global developments highlight the fundamental reality that the transatlantic alliance is not making Europe safer<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In an international order long dominated by Western powers, particularly since the end of the Cold War, concepts of \u201cally\u201d and \u201calliance\u201d, exemplified by NATO, have functioned as instruments of collective security while simultaneously evolving into mechanisms of geopolitical power. This transformation has been associated with interventionist practices that contest state sovereignty under international law, including the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, the Iraq War and NATO\u2019s eastward enlargement. In particular, NATO\u2019s eastward enlargement altered Europe\u2019s strategic balance by intensifying Russia\u2019s security concerns. Rather than consolidating a stable post-Cold War order, the alliance has perpetuated structural antagonism, contributing to protracted security tensions that ultimately culminated in the Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, these consequences are now visible within the alliance itself\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202604\/09\/WS69d78ed1a310d6866eb428ef.html\" >Continue reading at China Daily\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thetransnational.substack.com\/p\/nato-allies-security-myth?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1655621&amp;post_id=194500498&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b6biw&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original &#8211; thetransnational.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Apr 2026\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u201cGlobal Developments Highlight the Fundamental Reality That the Transatlantic Alliance Is Not Making Europe Safer \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":315150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[433,1268,91,70],"class_list":["post-315149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-nato","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315151,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315149\/revisions\/315151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}