Original scientific paper
THE EXPANSION OF NATO AND THE NEW EUROPEAN SECURITY
Radovan Vukadinović
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author claims that all major efforts concerning European security have always been linked with the end of a war. Thus the end of the cold war has been marked with the expansion of NATO and an attempt to create a new security. By analysing the political scope of the expansion, the military and strategic framework, the Russian reactions, and the economic significance, the author comes to the conclusion that the expansion is not conducive to the establishment of an integral system of European security. The purpose of this development by Clinton’s team was primarily to outline the new European borders (the key aspect of Clinton’s foreign policy) and, in the future, to create the conditions for further expansion and admittance of new members. Only in the remote future, through constant expansion and links with other European organisations, NATO could turn into the central system of European security.
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105646
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Publication date:
16.1.1998.
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