What is NATO?

Civics 101

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Government, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In the years after World War II, twelve countries in North America and Europe got together to form an alliance. This alliance, known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, would build up the collective military and security strength of every country involved - so an attack on one country would mean an attack on them all. How does a security alliance between dozens of countries with different governments, interests, and military power, even work? What role does NATO play in international war and peace today? Helping us answer those questions are Marla Keenan, an adjunct senior fellow at the Stimson Center, focusing on international security, including human rights in armed conflict, and the protection of civilians, and Rachel Rizzo, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center whose research focuses on European security, NATO, and the transatlantic relationship. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every time in a movie that I see groups put aside differences to just all commit to the same goal
0:08.0	Mm-hmm. It is truly heartwarming for me like it does something
0:12.7	Chemical in my brain like like what kind of scene like in Lord of the Rings
0:18.6	Don't you do it? I'm sorry everyone out there
0:22.7	I I don't like Lord of the Rings and maybe this is gonna end my career at civics one one
0:26.7	But I just don't like those movies all of the good and decent creatures of the world
0:32.2	Banding together to fight a singular evil including trees that would mean the destruction
0:37.5	Yeah of life you like that part when everybody comes together from all these different places to battle this big evil force
0:44.0	And then go back to their own lands to probably fight each other in another 50 years
0:48.1	Well including ghosts
0:50.1	Including ghosts that come out of a cave. Yeah, I like it all
0:57.6	Because guess what the epic gathering of armies from across lands is not just a fantasy
1:04.6	In fact the United States is one of 30 countries that have all sworn to stand together in the face of an attack and an
1:12.3	Intergovernmental Security Alliance stretching from North America to Europe
1:15.9	You're listening to civics 101. I'm Nick Capodice. I'm Hannah McCarthy and today
1:22.6	We are going to talk about one of the most powerful defensive alliances in the world the North Atlantic
1:29.7	Traiti organization more powerful than ghosts in a cave
1:33.9	I'm not even convinced you've seen
1:36.9	Those kings in the hole in the cave and they come in. He's like, please Joe K. Fine
1:41.6	And they just kill everyone you bow to no one
1:47.0	We are moving into an era in which back physical force we've got the Paul over our work
1:52.3	They know it kept the peace of Europe and the Atlantic through 12 dangerous years like these have always kept NATO forces
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