U.S. Security Assistance to Non-NATO Countries: The Swedish Case and Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Abstract

This Note provides background on the issue of Western security assistance to non-NATO nations in Europe. Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary have expressed interest in security cooperation with and membership in NATO. In late March 1991, for example, President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of a former Warsaw Pact country to visit NATO headquarters in Brussels. On June 7, NATO made an unprecedented offer to cooperate with countries that were once members of the Warsaw Pact. This Note reviews how the United States dealt in the 1950s with requests for security assistance made by two countries that chose not to join NATO. It describes forms of security assistance to non-NATO nations that developed in the 1950s and the policies that regulated this assistance. U.S. security cooperation with Sweden and assistance to Yugoslavia illustrate how U.S. policy was flexible enough to meet the requirements of two very different cases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA596012

Entities

People

  • Paul M. Cole

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Central Europe
  • Department Of State
  • Eastern Europe
  • Europe
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Security
  • Teamwork
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Government and Public Administration Law.