The so-called ‘two percent goal’, agreed to by NATO members in 2014 in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, requires member states to increase defence spending to two percent of their national GDPs by 2024. Although not binding, it was a commitment, and has since received critical attention in the burden-sharing discourse. In this article for the International Affairs Forum, Ino Terzi evaluates the effectiveness of the two percent goal as a mechanism to encourage and measure commitment, and suggests how the Alliance can be more effective in promoting and measuring burden-sharing. She argues that NATO should define emerging threats as common concerns of the Allies and present NATO as the solution, thereby converting the two percent obsession into a collective commitment.
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