NATO After Enlargement: New Challenges, New Missions, New Forces

摘要

This report includes papers presented at a conference organized by the Strategic Studies Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in January 1998 to explore new challenges confronting the NATO Alliance. In 1999 NATO will formally admit three new members (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) and adopt a new strategic concept. In so doing, it will take giant strides towards effecting a revolutionary transformation of European security. On the one hand, it could be said that NATO enlargement closes the immediate post-Cold War period that began with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But on the other hand, enlargement raises a host of serious new issues for the Alliance and for U.S. policymakers that they must begin to address now.