The last of three programmes The Dangerous Years
The recent Libyan crisis has exposed, more publicly than ever before, the strains within NATO between the USA and her European allies. Last week,
NATO foreign ministers met in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in what has been described as one of the most important sessions in the history of the Alliance.
Christopher Lee , the BBC's Defence and Foreign Affairs
Correspondent, chairs a debate on the future of the Alliance.
Could it exist without the USA? Can it survive the era of Star Wars, Gorbachev, and of outside conflicts which, like
Libya, involve the interests of NATO members?
An international panel of leading analysts discuss their views and answer questions from an invited audience at Chatham House, London. Producer BLAIR THOMSON (In association with the Royal Institutefor
International Affairs)
(Re-broadcast on Friday at
11.0am LW)