NATO 75/25 (English version)

75 years after the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. 25 years after Poland s accession to the Alliance. Interviews by Dominika Ćośić with Jens Stoltenberg, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Oana Lungescu, Andrew Michta, Robert Pszczel and Paul Taylor on NATO s past, present and future.

“The author s fresh insight and perspective opens a rare door to NATO’s history, its relevance and the minds of the leaders who have shaped it.”

Nic Robertson (CNN)

"NATO’s fundamental purpose has not changed. It means exactly the same today as when it was established in 1949. It means that an attack on one ally will trigger a response from the whole alliance. “One for all, and all for one.” The idea behind this is to prevent conflict and not to provoke it. It sends a clear message to any potential adversary that if you attack one ally you will have to deal with the whole alliance, and by sending that message of deterrence so clearly, we are preventing war, and preserving peace for the NATO allies. Taken together, the countries of the NATO alliance represent fifty percent of the world’s military might and fifty percent of the world’s economic might, so as long as we stand together, we will remain safe and secure. So that is exactly what we are doing."

Jens Stoltenberg

"Today, I think it is clear to everyone that NATO is the cornerstone of European and North Atlantic security. Putin has achieved the exact opposite of what he set out to achieve. He wanted less NATO, but he has ended up with more NATO: more NATO members, more defence investments and a stronger NATO presence in the east, including along Russia’s borders. So today we have a much stronger NATO."

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Hardcover, 128 pages