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What should NATO members address in the organization’s upcoming summit (25 May 2017)? According to this publication, the issues at hand include 1) defense spending reforms; 2) the missions the Alliance should or should not perform against new security threats; and 3) Turkey’s demonstrated disregard for NATO-led anti-ISIS efforts, which is already negatively impacting its status within the Alliance. What these problems signify, at least to the text’s author, is that NATO is in disarray and that if it doesn't implement necessary reforms in the Trump era, Europe’s long-standing "collective security" model may yield to a more cost-efficient ‘East Asian’ model – i.e., a “hub-and-spoke” system of bilateral security guarantees, with the US operating at its center.