Norway's Impact on the New Strategic Concept

Abstract

As NATO is in the process of developing a new Strategic Concept (SC), Norway is one of the small European countries trying to make an important contribution to the future of NATO. During the Cold War the Norway-Russia border along with Arctic military considerations meant that Norway was important to the security of NATO, but afterwards the focus of NATO shifted to other regions of Europe, particularly the Balkans.1 With the start of the international efforts to fight terrorism, NATOs focus has been drawn even farther afield to places like Afghanistan. These developments make it impossible for Norway to continue to wield influence in NATO disproportionate to its size based solely on classic defense considerations, so it is likely to appeal to other issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1019297

Entities

People

  • Gregory T. Pound

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Baltic Countries
  • Climate Change
  • Cold War
  • Energy Security
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • International Security
  • Law
  • National Security
  • North America
  • Security
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Strategic Security Studies