affected the United States and many other countries. Canada, having lost 24 Canadians in the attacks would soon join in the efforts to battle terrorism and bring democracy to Afghanistan. Han Seung-soo, the president of the General Assembly at the time announced that the 9/11 attacks threatened international peace. Therefore, the UN allowed NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to organize a mission starting in 2001. The treaty that had created…
Established: 1949. Membership: 28 Alliance Members: Albania, Bel-gium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hunga-ry, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States. Background: The Brussels Treaty of 1948, revised in 1984, represented the first step in the post-war reconstruction of Western European security and brought into…
ORGANIZATION Introduction NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO is a political and military alliance whose primary goals are the collective defence of its members and the maintenance of a democratic peace in the North Atlantic area. All 28 Allies have an equal say, the Alliance’s decisions must be unanimous and consensual, and its members must respect the basic values that underpin the Alliance, namely democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. NATO has a military and civilian…
Should the NATO exist? From the early 1949-ties when NATO started the existence till the end of the Cold War there was no doubt about NATO necessity. The entire world was living of new war fair between western countries and the Soviet Union. Western countries were convinced about the western countries necessity to have NATO alliance as sustainable power of Soviet Union. But the Cold War ended after collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. And on the same day NATO faced with the question – what is the…
Latvia and NATO Latvia has been a member of NATO since 29 March 2004. Arguments for Joining NATO: Security - for independent Latvia. NATO will uphold its commitment to Latvia as any other member. Stability - for us and our children in a safe and independent country. Never will our homeland, be marred by footsteps of unfriendly powers and never will our people be forced to leave their homes to seek refuge in foreign lands. Our development and prosperity has a secure foundation - our independence…
NATO First thing you got to know about NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is that it is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed on 4 April 1949. Why was NATO created? Actually NATO is the successor by the “Treaty of Brussels” which was signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, France, UK, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. This treaty and the Soviet Berlin Blockade led to the Western European Union’s Defence Organization. However, participation of the US was necessary to counter…
NA NATO: A Neoliberal Perspective To analyse NATO within the neoliberal perspective, the aspects of NATO as a key player in creating cooperation and strengthening the interdependence in the international system should be noted. As a priority, contents of the neoliberal theory will be identified and consequently the picture of NATO from this point of view will be provided. According to the neoliberal theory of international relations, individuals and states have the capacity to solve problems through…
NATO formally welcomed Russia as a participant – but not as a fullfledged member. The agree-ment signed at an extraordinary meeting of the leaders of NATO’s member nations, marked another major step in its effort to lock in Moscow’s shift toward the West. The accord will for the first time give Moscow a role from the outset in NATO discussions about a fixed variety of topics , including non - pro-liferation, crisis management, missile defence and counterterrorism. But in an indication that the North…
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmentalmilitary alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia…
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-cadet-school/index.html?iid=article_sidebar Why NATO is such a thorn in Russia's side By Diana Magnay, CNN updated 10:36 AM EDT, Wed May 7, 2014 Moscow (CNN) -- In a telephone call Monday between Russia's Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu and the U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel, Shoigu described the activity of U.S. and NATO troops near Russia's border as "unprecedented." According to the official Russian version of the call, his…