National Security Decision Models and the NATO Enlargement Debate

Abstract

On April 30, 1998, culminating prolonged discussion and debate within the Clinton administration and in the broader public, the United States Senate voted to support the admission of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The decision to welcome those former members of the Warsaw Pact was one of the most far-reaching policy developments in the history of the Atlantic Alliance As such, it was highly controversial, enjoying at first only a limited natural constituency, and opposed by some of the most prominent figures in the foreign policy elite Nevertheless, the Protocols of Accession of the three candidate members were ratified by an SO-19 vote, a commanding four-to-one margin How did advocates of NATO enlargement carry the day on such a profoundly contentious issue?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 14, 1998
Accession Number
ADA442410

Entities

People

  • John J. Boris

Organizations

  • National War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alliances
  • Central Europe
  • Congress
  • Czech Republic
  • Department Of State
  • Eastern Europe
  • Europe
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Universities
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.