NATO on my watch: Is the military alliance fit for purpose?

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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NATO’s power has been thrown into sharp focus amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How does it operate – and what has it got right and wrong of late? Alex Andreou is joined by Mark Webber, a professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham who is co-authoring the book What’s Wrong with NATO and How to Fix It, to discuss the military alliance. “Whenever NATO acts it is acting as the aggregate of its members, that is its great strength.” “What NATO has done very well is it has strengthened its own defences.” “NATO enlargement is not a project that was anti-Russian, but where things failed is that project was not successful in bringing in Russia as a partner.” “The US is still the dominant power in Europe after the Cold War.” “There is moral clarity around the current support for Ukraine – but that longer thought is important.” www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Alex Andreou. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: … Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.0	because there is no Soviet Union anymore and where there
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1:30.2	peaceful and democratic Russia. the words of Vladimir Putin being interviewed in November
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1:38.4	My guest today is professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham. He is a NATO specialist and a one-time scholar of Russia in the former Soviet Union.
1:48.0	He's currently co-authoring a book entitled What's Wrong with NATO and and How to Fix It? Which is lucky because that is precisely
1:56.3	the subject of today's podcast. Welcome to the bunker Professor Mark Weber.
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