The importance of opposing viewpoints -- Introduction -- Did the end of the Cold War remove the need for NATO? : The post-cold war world still needs NATO / Lindsay Lloyd ; NATO has started a new cold war / Mohammed Almezel ; Putin may have a point about NATO / Klaus Wiegrefe ; NATO expansion led to the current tragedy in Ukraine / Ted Galen Carpenter ; Putin must be stopped by NATO / Robert Pszczel ; Russian agression is to blame for the war in Ukraine, not NATO expansion ; Ken Moskowitz ; Putin is trying to us Ukraine to fight NATO expansion battles that have already been settled / Becky Sullivan -- Is NATO good for democracy? : Some challenges to democracy come from NATO's own members / Rachel Rizzo ; The free world needs alliances beyond NATO / John Davenport ; NATO needs to be cautious if it wants to protect democracy / Rachel Ellehuus ; Hungary's democratic backsliding should be a wake-up call for NATO / Max Bergmann and Siena Cicarelli -- Is NATO effective at defending its members and allies? : Triggering Article 5 could bring NATO to war / Louis Jacobson ; Article 5 does not necessarily mean the U.S. would have to go to war with Russia / Katherine Yon Ebright ; NATO still plays a key role in keeping the peace in Europe / Alan Dowd ; NATO cannot allow Putin's agression / Richard Kamp -- Do NATO members spend enough on their own defense? : A defense budget increase gets rare bipartisan support from the U.S. / Jacqueline Feldscher and Marcus Weisgerber ; The war in Ukraine has forced European countries to increase their defense budgets / Chrstina Mackenzie ; NATO should ditch the 2 percent metric / Todd Harrison and Seamus P. Daniels ; Two percent is not the magic number / Marcus Hellyer ; European NATO members should carry a greater share of defense costs / David Adesnik -- For further discussion -- Organizations to contact.