| ID | 102802 |
| Title Proper | Quo Vadis, NATO |
| Other Title Information | a glance from Lisbon |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Petrovsky, P ; Dedushkin, V |
| Publication | 2011. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | WHERE IS NATO going? Recently the question has moved to the center of attention of the analytical, academic and diplomatic communities in Russia and abroad. The Portuguese are as concerned as the rest of the world. Indeed, the disappearance of the Soviet Union left its ideological adversary, the North Atlantic Alliance, a Cold War product, at a crossroads. The NATO-centrism principle cracked under the impact of the multi-polar world which has finally taken shape. In recent years, few sided with the deliberations about NATO as the cornerstone of global security and the "world policeman": this is popular only among certain NATO members still living in the past. The European security and defense policy for each member state, the core of the EU Security Doctrine, envisaged stronger extra-NATO military capabilities. Passions flew high at the numerous scientific-political seminars held in Lisbon on the eve of the NATO summit; some people doubted that the world still needed NATO at all. A sort of "know-how" was required to preserve the accumulated potential and go on living while the member-countries were slashing their military budgets. In 2011, the NATO staff will be trimmed from 13.5 to 9 thousand; 7 command and control structures will replace the present 11. NATO will concentrate at supplies, purchases, maintenance, logistics, communications, and intelligence. The means as well as the aims were in short supply: NATO needed at least a hypothetical or, better still, potential enemy. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 57, No. 1; Feb 2011: p49-57 |
| Journal Source | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 57, No. 1; Feb 2011: p49-57 |
| Key Words | NATO ; Lisbon ; NATO - Military ; Russia |