NATO - paradigma integracija i garant mira i bezbednosti
NATO – The Paradigm of Integration and Guarantee of Peace and Security

Summary/Abstract: This work aimed at understanding the essence of the North Atlantic alliance-NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), which since the Second World War, or rather from its inception, making tremendous efforts to Europe and other countries in ensuring lasting peace, political stability, collective defense and protection, a high degree of democracy, and national security. NATO, with its external influences and the power of emergency, dramatically changed the European political landscape and the idea of national security that has long been the traditional mainstay of international relations. It from day to day proves to be developed in the “armed OEBS”,that is able to carry out defined arrangements known as the Petersberg tasks, and is ready to share its military resources at the disposal of operations, headed by the United States and European Union. When the foundation nobody thought, that its strategic dimension (especially extension), to a large extent dictate events in the Balkans, which, unfortunately, it happened. NATO enlargement means the fulfillment of relevant conditions, especially existence of a stable economy and political situation, including the famous "Peery" criteria for the introduction of democratic control of armed forces. It is certain that NATO will one day stop expanding, and those countries wishing to join must know that the enlargement process was not linear, it is complex or time-consuming and does not take place automatically. The said conditions are simultaneously complex strategic objectives can be fulfilled by themselves, so each member country must focus all their power (financial, personnel, technical and technological) and find a way to ensure their implementation. As for the budgetary appropriations for the common funding for NATO activities, the conclusion is that they are, particularly during the Cold War reached a maximum, to the late twentieth and early twenty century followed their precipitous decline. Financing activities is not an absolute protection from political instability, on the contrary, it provided the reforms were a condition of membership in NATO and the value system that membership brings. NATO's greatest value is to build a system of democracy, which are reliable support to international peace and stability, which was once was a signal the U.S. Congress to begin to believe in Europe as the reliable military ally and a strong trade partner and to accelerate the evolution of whole-hearted support of NATO, which culminated in the fall the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the latent danger, called the Soviet Union.

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