KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE MASTER IN EUROPEAN POLITICS & POLICIES
NATO Past, Present… Future?
Master Student: Michail Hamntan
Paper presented in the 4th Euro-Atlantic Conference titled ‘21st Century: Challenges facing Europe and North America’ on the 18th of March 2005 at the Egmont Palace in Brussels.
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2004-2005 CONTENTS
1.1 Introduction………………………………………………………….…3
1.2 THE ORIGINS OF THE ALLIANCE.………………..……………..3
2. Part I..…………………………………………………..……….…...8
2.1 NATO TODAY - FROM ROME TO ISTANBUL.………………....8
2.1.1 THE ROME SUMMIT - NOVEMBER 1991………………8
2.1.2 THE BRUSSELS SUMMIT - JANUARY 1994………..…...10
2.1.3 THE MADRID SUMMIT - JULY 1997………...…………..11
2.1.4 THE WASHINGTON SUMMIT - APRIL 1999…………….12
2.1.5 THE PRAGUE SUMMIT – NOVEMBER 2002…………….14
2.1.5 THE ISTANBUL SUMMIT - JUNE 2004………..……...….15
2. Part II.………………………………………………..………..…….17
2.1 NATO’s FUTURE: From ISTANBUL and beyond. ………………17
2.1.1 THE ‘BENEVOLENT’ SCENARIO……………………….………17
2.1.2 THE ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ SCENARIO…………………….…19
2.1.2 THE ‘DIVORCE’ SCENARIO……………………….…….………21
2.2 PRECONDITIONS……………………….…………………..……….21
3. Conclusion……………………….…………………..……………..23
4. Bibliography………………….…………………..………………....27
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