NATO ENLARGEMENT RELOADED
NATO ENLARGEMENT RELOADED

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author addresses the issue of NATO enlargement, expanding upon it with examples such as FYROM, and the name-dispute that did not allow it to became NATO member despite being ready to joint NATO as early as 2009, Montenegro, with significant progress, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the conditions attached for joining the Alliance, Georgia, elaborating on the pros and cons of Georgian NATO membership, Ukraine, with a large pro-Russian population in its Eastern part and with particular historical significance for Moscow. Then, he writes about the roots of the delicate membership debate and about Russia’s perspective on NATO admitting new members from the former Eastern hemisphere, during the almost twenty years of the enlargement process. To conclude, the author gives us his insight into how to deal with the membership question with regard to the four aspirant countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, FYROM, Georgia and Montenegro.

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