Denmark and the Future of NATO: What Comes Next for Western Security? | Today's Battlegrounds | Hoover Institution

Join Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former prime minister of Denmark, and Hoover Senior Fellow, H.R. McMaster, as they discuss international security, the prospects for the US-Danish relationship, and the health of NATO and the transatlantic alliance as wars continue in Ukraine and the Middle East.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Anders Fogh Rasmussen served as prime minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009 and as the 12th Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from 2009 to 2014. Rasmussen became Denmark’s youngest member of parliament at the age of 25, and he was named minister of economic affairs in 1990. In June 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Rasmussen to co-chair an international task force on security guarantees for Ukraine. The resulting Kyiv Security Compact became the basis for a web of security guarantees negotiated between Ukraine and NATO allies that was formalized in a new Ukraine Compact at the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington.

H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He was the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.