L’Italia e la NATO dopo il vertice di Vilnius

Italy and NATO after the Vilnius Summit

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect on the future of NATO and Italy’s role within it after the Vilnius summit. The war against Ukraine has caused an upheaval in the security scenario, giving rise to new geopolitical configurations and the emergence of “systemic rivals” that challenge the values and the rules-based international order that constitute the connective tissue of free democratic Western societies. The threat of the Russian Federation, the global challenge posed by China, and the instabilities originating in the Mediterranean and Middle East, call for strategic vision and action, cohesive and forward-looking, from a renewed West. The Euro-Atlantic Community found itself united in Kyiv in defending and relaunching a new West, still in the making, which, recovering the original values of the international liberal order, should go beyond traditional geographical limits, embracing those countries and organisations that share the same principles of freedom and respect for the rule of law.