NATO's Next Strategic Concept: How the Alliance's New Strategy will Reshape Global Security

Abstract

Capping months of diplomatic signaling-and to no one's eventual surprise-the declaration capping the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's most recent summit at Strasbourg and Kehl confirmed what members have been saying for some time: "The organization needs a new strategy."1 The last one, signed over a decade ago, followed on the heels of the NATO intervention in Kosovo and Bosnia. Since then the United States has endured a traumatic terrorist attack and become bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq with a handful of increasingly reluctant NATO partners. Born as a bulwark against the Soviet Union in 1949, the alliance survived the fall of communism by expanding its portfolio from the mere static defense of each other's borders to enhancing regional stability through engagement and enlargement. Now NATO is facing a new reality, and the call for a new strategic concept goes to the heart of its relevancy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA533564

Entities

People

  • Christopher R. Davis

Organizations

  • Air University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arms Control
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.