The United States and its allies and partners must not only understand Iran’s regional strategy and influence but also develop a coherent strategy of their own with which to confront them. Considering the relative economic, political, and diplomatic power of the two sides, it is unacceptable for the United States and its allies to allow Iran even such progress as it has made in these realms.

The time is ripe for Washington to push NATO into a greater role in European energy security.

The absence of clear U.S. leadership on Libya has produced the current impasse, both diplomatically and militarily. Although NATO should ultimately prevail, it is wrenching that our president has caused so many of the problems we now confront.

The Senate is scheduled to vote this month on whether to ratify amendments that would bring the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Representatives of the nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will convene in Madrid this month to decide which new countries to accept into the alliance.

Foreign policy experts discussed ways of reviving the North Atlantic alliance and of integrating the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe into Western institutions.

An agreement to invite Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has set off new rounds in the debate over enlarging the alliance.

The old NATO will not be enough to meet today's risks and challenges, Robertson said at the meeting, which was sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute's New Atlantic Initiative.