NATO and the Transformation of Eastern Europe 1988–1991
NATO and the Transformation of Eastern Europe 1988–1991

Summary/Abstract: Present study gives an insight into the reactions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as it reacted upon the overall and deep political changes that took place in 1988 and 1989 throughout Eastern Europe. While surveying the course of events, which depended to a large extent on the overall political situation in the USSR, the paper gives us an exciting insight into the documents (confidential situation reports, expert evaluations, political predictions, etc.) produced by experts in the inner circles of the major Western political and military alliance and the North Atlantic Council. In order to understand the meaning and circumstances how was the transformation of Eastern Europe as the result of the collapse of communism perceived by NATO officials, the author analyses the period right after the radical change in the policies of NATO as approaching the end of the Cold War.

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