TOWARDS AN EXTENDED STRATEGIC CONCEPT IN THE 21st CENTURY: “THE GREAT NATO SPACE” AND THE EXPANSION TOWARDS THE PACIFIC. THE STRATEGIC “DOUBLE-OCEAN” CONNECTION
TOWARDS AN EXTENDED STRATEGIC CONCEPT IN THE 21st CENTURY: “THE GREAT NATO SPACE” AND THE EXPANSION TOWARDS THE PACIFIC. THE STRATEGIC “DOUBLE-OCEAN” CONNECTION

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Geopolitics
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: double heartland; double-ocean; new strategic concept; NATO extra-Atlantic expansion; Pacific century.
Summary/Abstract: The 21st century world is a dynamic, atypical one, with an evolution based on new paradigms that are forcing existent structures, ones 70 years old, to adapt, to expand, to re-invent,in order to achieve a better control over the new strategic environment. Thus, starting from the“Pacific Century” paradigm, as one with a special importance within the framework of American strategic doctrine in previous US administrations, and equally, taking into account doctrinal strategic elements taken over and developed by Trump administration regarding “Pacific Century”, within the present paper we’ll explore windows and possibilities of NATO present strategic concept regarding expansion towards extra-Atlantic zones, especially to the Pacific area. This premise signifies to take into account inclusively a future NATO development to a superior level in comparison with the present one, by considering the “double-ocean” paradigm (Atlantic Pacific). A strategic concept regarding NATO in the 21st century would mean to initiate a strategic control developed simultaneously by NATO, regarding two oceans (as strategic areas), as strategically inter-connected (as old heartland and new heartland, as Old Europe and New Asia).From this premise, multiple strategic approaches can be developed, subsequently.

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