Expanding NATO: What Challenges and Opportunities Wait Ahead?

ForewordMonday, June 19, 2023
In an ever-changing world marked by geopolitical shifts and evolving security threats, it is crucial to reassess and adapt the collective defense architecture that underpins international stability. Established more than 70 years ago, NATO has been a...

Aybars Arda Kılıçer

Why Romania is a NATO “Model Ally"?Monday, June 19, 2023
The fall of the Soviet Union ushered in a new and positive phase for all the countries of the so-called “New Europe,” which had been subjected to the heavy yoke of the Warsaw Pact and which wanted to return to the Western camp to which...

Petre Roman

Towards a Fuzzy World Order: What Role for NATO?Monday, June 19, 2023
ALINTI-1 Thinking about world order in international relations occurs at both the conceptual and the empirical level. At the conceptual level, la question du jour is what shape the world order will take if we assume that we are in a...

Rebuilding “Greater Russia” and the Invasion of UkraineMonday, June 19, 2023
Vladimir Putin made clear more than a decade and a half ago, that, in his view, “the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” and that he is committed to re-establishing Russia’s...

Roger E. Kanet

Where Does NATO's Enlargement Lead To?Monday, June 19, 2023
According to the realist paradigm, political-military alliances are instruments of states' security policies and influence the redistribution of power in the international system. The United States, as the main victor of the Cold War that ended...

Ryszard Zieba

The Renuclearization of Europe and The Limits of HistoryMonday, June 19, 2023
Against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the military balance in Europe is shifting in NATO’s favor. Russia is dedicating much of its conventional forces to the fighting in Ukraine. Analysts have observed that Moscow faces...

The Three Dimensions of NATO Enlargement in 2023: From the Arctic to the Black Sea and BeyondMonday, June 19, 2023
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a watershed moment not only for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but also for the international political system as a whole. While NATO has been undergoing an extended process of...

The Distinctiveness of NATO and the Alliance's Prehistory Monday, June 19, 2023
Historians search document archives for insights into why people did what they did. Anthropologists observe people interacting and interpret their behavior. Political scientists tend to generalize after first identifying of what a political...

William R. Thompson

NATO, the EU, and Global Security: A New Role for EuropeMonday, June 19, 2023
NATO operates today within the context of the New Cold Wars between the U.S. and Russia and between the U.S. and China.[1] The New Cold Wars - and the expansion of NATO – are propelled by bi-partisan U.S. foreign policy to sustain...

Charles Derber

Emerging Technologies and NATO's ExpansionMonday, June 19, 2023
When NATO conducted its first major strategic review, over a decade ago, it was observed that "Less predictable is the possibility that research breakthroughs will transform the technological battlefield. Allies and partners should be alert for...

Margaret E. Kosal

Indigenizing NATOMonday, June 19, 2023
NATO’s military presence in the Arctic is expanding fast in response to the growing importance of the region to Euro-Atlantic security.[1] The establishment of a new NATO Arctic Command is now mooted, designed to ‘concentrate the...

Julian Reid

European Identity in Defense PolicyMonday, June 19, 2023
The aim of the article is to analyze the attitude of Europeans to defense as well as to progress in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Is an EU-specific security and common defense identity being created? According to Karl...

Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse

Deterrence by Resilience: The Case of UkraineMonday, June 19, 2023
The 1964 noir-classic Dr. Strangelove describes the cornerstone of alliances – bound together, an adversary must carefully consider attacking. NATO as an international organization boasts a military force over one-million strong. The Alliance...

NATO's 2022 Strategic Concept: Preparing for a More Complex and Interconnected WorldMonday, June 19, 2023
At the 2022 Madrid Summit, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) adopted a new Strategic Concept for the Alliance. The Strategic Concept is NATO’s most important guiding document, second only to the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO’s...

Giuseppe Spatafora

Expanding NATO: What Challenges and Opportunities Wait Ahead?Vol. 22 No. 1 Spring 2023

Expanding NATO: What Challenges and Opportunities Wait Ahead?
Vol. 22 No. 1 Spring 2023