NATO and Partnership for Peace: Position and Perspectives of Eastern and Southeastern European Countries
NATO and Partnership for Peace: Position and Perspectives of Eastern and Southeastern European Countries
Author(s): Siniša TatalovićContributor(s): Mirna Varlandy-Supek (Translator)
Subject(s): Politics, Geography, Regional studies, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: NATO; peace; partnership; East Europe; South-East Europe; Croatia; BiH; internal conflicts;
Summary/Abstract: The cessation of cold war and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact in the early ninties confronted NATO with new challenges, particularly in the reation to the countries of Europe’s East and South-East and Russia. The fact that the document “Partnership for Peace” was adopted at the start of 1994 and that it was signed by 26 countries meant the overall acceptance of the conceptual document of European security on the treshold of the 21st century. This document provides democratic countries outside NATO with the possibility of cooperating with its political and military bodies and paves the way for their full membership. If regular criteria were applied, Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegovina could count on joining “Partnership for Peace” only after they have resolved internal conflicts and frictions with their neighbours by political means.
Journal: Politička Misao
- Issue Year: XXXII/1995
- Issue No: 05
- Page Range: 103-119
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English