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NATO – A TIME OF REDEFINITIONS

Author(s): Stanisław Bieleń
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, International relations/trade
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: NATO; identity; redefinitions of strategies and functions

Summary/Abstract: NATO’s problems with its identity are the result of the West having lost its dynamismof civilisational expansion. After the Cold War the geopolitical subjectivity ofWestern Europe towards the United States was undermined within the Atlanticcommunity. The US became a hegemon and it is to its geostrategic interests thatNATO’s functions were subordinated. Presently NATO members face the need toredefine the organisation’s strategies and functions in the contemporary world.They must choose whether NATO is to constitute an intervention instrument in theglobal ideological struggle (in the name of ‘total democracy’) or fulfil the regional(transatlantic) defence functions for which it was established. Understandingthe axiological diversity and accepting the diversity of political systems is theprerequisite for developing a certain modus vivendi with the countries that constitutea source of challenge and threats towards NATO. Presently, the stability of theinternational order depends especially on establishing peaceful relations with Russia.

  • Issue Year: 52/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 37-50
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish