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NATO and Partnership for Peace: Position and Perspectives of Eastern and Southeastern European Countries
Siniša Tatalović
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The cessation of the Cold War and the desintegration of the Warsaw Pact in the early ninties confronted NATO with new challenges, particularly in relation to the countries of Europe's East, South-East and Russia. The fact that the document "Partnership for Peace" was adopted at the start of 1994 and that it was signed by 26 countries meant the overall acceptance of the conceptual document of European security on the threshold of the 21st century. This document provides democratic countries outside NATO with the possibility of cooperating with its political and militiary bodies and paves the way for their full membership.
If regular criteria were applied, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina could count on joining the "Partnership for Peace" only after they have resolved internal conflicts and frictions with their neighbours by political means.
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110421
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Publication date:
1.12.1995.
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