Coronavirus Pandemic: Consequences for NATO
Coronavirus Pandemic: Consequences for NATO

Author(s): Wojciech Lorenz
Subject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law, Geopolitics
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Coronavirus pandemic; NATO; crisis-management mechanisms; reducing public supports for the Alliance; collective defence mission;
Summary/Abstract: For several decades, NATO has been developing crisis-management mechanisms to cope with natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and pandemics. However, during the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, the Alliance decided to focus on maintaining its capacity to defend territory and deter adversaries. Although this is NATO’s primary task, the lack of a visible response to the crisis may reduce public support for the Alliance, diminish its significance, and ultimately weaken its ability to conduct its collective defence mission.

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