Norwegian National Security Policy in the New Europe
Abstract
This paper asserts that Norwegian national security policy should integrate into the new, emerging European security order and focuses on the immediate and long-term challenges to Norwegian national security, the establishment of Norwegian security options within a unified Europe, and the development of military alternatives for Northern regional stability. Immediate security challenges, the need to shield Norway from crisis and instability in the Soviet Union/Russian Republic and the need to maintain links to an increasingly integrated Europe, are examined. Long-term security challenges, the need to maintain a transatlantic military link to the United States and develop a Eurostrategic perspective in Nordic security matters, are also discussed. Norwegian security options in the New Europe, the revitalized use of the Conference on Security and Cooperation (CSCE), European Community (EC) and European Economic Area (EEA), and Western European Union (WEU), are analyzed. Military alternatives to promote regional stability in the North, including the use of a revised NATO strategy, multinational ground forces and multinational naval forces are identified. The use of NATO Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF) and Multinational Maritime Forces (MMF), coupled with Norwegian political support, military commitment and logistic support for reinforcements, is recommended. This paper concludes that Norway should not pursue WEU membership but integrate into an emerging European security order based upon three pillars-the Atlantic Alliance, the EC and the CSCE.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 15, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA245042
Entities
People
- David A. Larson
Organizations
- Naval War College