New Atlantic Initiative
The New Atlantic Initiative was an international nonpartisan organization dedicated to revitalizing and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies. NAI was based at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, DC–based think tank.
The NAI's central objective was to strengthen Atlantic cooperation in the post-Cold War world by bringing together Americans and Europeans to work toward common goals, including:
- The reinvigoration of Atlantic institutions of political cooperation and consultation.
- The admission of Europe's fledgling democracies into the institutions of Atlantic defense and European economic cooperation, notably NATO and the European Union.
- The establishment of free trade between an enlarged European Union and the North American [Free Trade Agreement] countries as a complement to strengthening global free trade.
In 2005 NAI was shut down and merged into the "European Studies" program at AEI.