(L-R) NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gather for a photograph at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025. Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, meets annually, with some occasions more memorable than others. This year’s iteration, held in The Hague and chaired by new Secretary-General Mark Rutte, drew unusual attention because it seemed that the very future of the alliance was at stake.
June Teufel Dreyer
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June Teufel Dreyer is a professor of politics at the University of Miami, a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a faculty adviser to the Rumsfeld Foundation, and a former commissioner of the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Her books include studies on China’s ethnic minorities, Sino-Japanese relations, a comprehensive treatment of Chinese government now in its 10th edition, and an edited volume on Taiwan politics.
