NATO Review: Road to 21st century security

This report reviews the major security challenges the Alliance committed to address during the NATO Summit in Lisbon in 2010. Key themes include: the effects of budgetary constraints due to the global financial crisis, the effect of prolific social media on the relevancy of NATO's mission, the conflict in Afghanistan, the drug trade associated with the Taliban and Al Qaida, nuclear weapons, the creation of an "Emerging Security Challenges Division"‌ (ESCD) by NATO, terrorism, the NATO-Russia relationship, NATO-Asia relationship, the European Defense Agency, and the potential end of the "naval era."‌