To Have or Not to Have a “New” Identity: the Case of Post-Cold War NATO
To Have or Not to Have a “New” Identity: the Case of Post-Cold War NATO

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how the end of the Cold War affected one of the most important security international organizations, NATO, without causing its disappearance from the international arena as it did for the Warsaw Pact. The dimensions discussed throughout this paper will concern the identity and the legitimacy issues in relation to NATO, bearing in mind the fact that the international environment had fundamentally changed with the collapse of the Soviet empire. In order to respond to the new international environment, NATO needed a new identity (as a result of a transformation, not a revitalization process which was impossible to be an immediate one). The questions which rise at this juncture are (1) to what extent has NATO managed to find its new identity and, consequently, (2) how deep its transformation has been.

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