Sixty Years of Transformation of the NATO Cover Image

Šezdeset godina transformacije NATO
Sixty Years of Transformation of the NATO

Author(s): Dejan D. Orlić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: NATO (Alliance); transformation; Strategic Concepts; new tasks; missions; challenges.

Summary/Abstract: The article describes and analyse transformational processes inside North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) during his 60 years of existence. During this period of time NATO has survived and adjusted to many historical events in the Europe and the world and faced many securiy challenges and threats. Whenever it‘s the Cold War or post-Cold War period or is it the new millenium challenges. The author focuses his research on the last two periods, respectively, when transformation became urgent due to rise of European security policy, terrorist attacks on the USA and wars against terrorism (Afghanistan and Iraq). In the final and conculuding part of the paper the author has described NATO in his sixties - how he looks today, what are his tasks and missions, how are the relations between allies and what are the challenges that Alliance face in the near future.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 529-553
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Serbian