Gabriela Ionita is editor at the Romanian magazine – „Cadran Politic”, and specialist on issues related to the Russian Federation and on the Community of Independent States. Was kind enough to accept an interview to discuss domestic and foreign policies of the Russian State. The first part of the interview relates on the foreign policies and the future challenges of this state. ...
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“I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.” [1]
The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 has left the North Atlantic Treaty Organization without an evenly matched opponent to deal with. This change was followed by a need of re-evaluating NATO’s nature, purposes and tasks. Hence, a gradual and still ongoing expansion of NATO to Eastern Europe was initiated. Moreover, plans were set and actions were developed to extend NATO’s activities to areas that had not formerly been its concerns until then. But challenges did not hesitate to appear. New threats requesting new ways to address them, as well as new changes in international system have caught NATO in a continuous process of reforming and adapting, with undesired consequences upon its effectiveness and efficiency.
In this essay NATO will be approached from a multilateral perspective. In the first part of the paper the rationale for the enlargement of NATO after 1991 will be discussed, as well as the transformation of NATO’s Strategic Concept since 1991 until now. In the second part, the relationship between Russia and NATO will be considered, by focusing more attention on the missile defense issue and Moscow’s attitude towards enlargement of NATO to the East. And in the last part, NATO’s main post-Cold War missions and military operations will be analyzed especially in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, but also as challenges for the Alliance’s cohesion and sustainability.
The aim of the essay is to briefly point out NATO’s main transformations since the end of Cold War and in the same time to question its raison d’être in a world of turmoil, ongoing change and insecurity....
Last week was full of interesting geopolitical events at a global level
By far the most important event was the 66th Session of the UN General...
