ISN: NATO’s African Quartet: Forging a New Strategic Partnership

Africa will loom large in NATO’s security calculus over the next decade. Libya and Algeria in North Africa, and Nigeria and Angola in West Africa will become central to Europe’s energy security as it moves to sharply reduce its reliance on Russian oil and gas imports. NATO will also have to marshal its maritime security resources to sustain a major effort to combat piracy in the Gulf of Guinea in order to safeguard the flow of oil and gas to Europe.

In addition, the Alliance will be confronted with very difficult decisions with respect to military intervention as internecine conflict along ethnic, tribal and religious lines roil failed states like Libya, and threaten fragile ones like Algeria and Nigeria. Simply put, NATO must recalibrate its priorities and forge a new partnership with Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Angola to reflect the increasing strategic importance of this African quartet to the Alliance.

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