{"id":16615,"date":"2014-10-01T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nato-gets-new-chief\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:01:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:01:33","slug":"nato-gets-new-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nato-gets-new-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Gets New Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{At a time of daunting geopolitical crises, NATO is undergoing its own version of regime change, with the arrival of a new chief official who has the blessing, at least temporarily, of one of the West’s biggest adversaries: Russian President Vladimir Putin.}<\/p>\n

Former two-term Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg started work Wednesday as NATO’s secretary-general, the 13th in the trans-Atlantic organization’s 65-year existence. And the key question is whether his consensus-building style will be more effective in tamping down the Ukraine conflict and other flashpoints than the hard talk of his predecessor, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

“I expect more moderate language, and that he will try to keep the dialogue open,” said Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, an independent Norwegian research institution.<\/p>\n

To allies like Germany, the expectation of a dial-back of the rhetoric from Rasmussen \u2014 a former conservative Danish prime minister \u2014 was one factor arguing in Stoltenberg’s favor.<\/p>\n

Last month, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, though squarely blaming the Kremlin for the continued crisis over Ukraine, said: “I found that some things that came out of Brussels, from NATO headquarters, in these last few weeks weren’t always helpful.”<\/p>\n

Stoltenberg was unanimously chosen as Rasmussen’s successor by NATO’s policy-making North Atlantic Council in March. It was a pick that won swift if tentative approval from Putin, who had dealt with Stoltenberg when the 55-year-old Norwegian headed the left-of-center government of one of Russia’s neighboring countries.<\/p>\n

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