... it is a heavily armed organization in almost desperate search of an antagonist. That is not what Greece or Turkey signed up for when they joined NATO in 1952. David Binder is a retired correspondent for the New York Times and serves on the editorial advisory board for Mediterranean Quarterly...

...Symeon A. Giannakos Symeon Giannakos is associate professor and director of the graduate program in international relations at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Richard E. Rupp: NATO after 9/11: An Alliance in Continuing Decline. New...

...Scott N. Siegel Greece's veto of the entry of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2009 provides an opportunity to evaluate the possible costs and benefits of a FYROM membership. For NATO, FYROM's inclusion has only a marginal...

...Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo The author, former deputy secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reviews the current status of the transatlantic alliance and the evolving role of NATO as an irreplaceable peacekeeping structure with extensive obligations in asymmetrical warfare...

...W. Bruce Weinrod Although fundamental questions concerning whether the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still relevant or necessary have emerged, NATO remains necessary for the protection of Western security and political interests. The international security environment remains...

... Beyond NATO: The U.S.-European Relationship Kenneth B. Moss It is time for the United States to look beyond the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in its search for a framework for U.S.-European relations. The NATO alliance...

... on research conducted under a NATO fellowship. MQ 13.3-09 Dagi 7/25/02 2:52 PM Page 119 Human Rights and International Security: The Challenge for NATO in the Mediterranean Ihsan D. Dagi The relevance...

...W. Bruce Weinrod Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 W. Bruce Weinrod is a Washington attorney. He served as deputy assistant secretary of defense forEuropean and NATO policy from 1989 until 1993. NATO after Prague and Copenhagen W. Bruce Weinrod...

...Ioan Mircea Pascu Ioan Mircea Pascu is minister of defense of Romania. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Perspectives of a Prospective NATO Member Ioan Mircea Pascu Every time major change occurs in the world, we wonder whether that change marks...

...Ivo Sanader Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Ivo Sanader is the prime minister of the Republic of Croatia. Croatia in the New Millennium: Toward EU and NATO Membership Ivo Sanader Croatia has come a long way since independence...

... Militarism and Ecology: NATO Ecocide in Serbia Vojin Joksimovich In the Kosovo war conducted by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 24 March to 10 June 1999, as in any major...

...Danijela Dudley Parallel expansions of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in recent decades have blurred the lines between membership in the two organizations and the conditionalities attached to each. While both organizations have seemed successful in attracting...

...Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud This essay analyzes how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is likely to address the new security environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It investigates how factors internal and external to the alliance shape the possibilities and limits...

... emerge in NATO's ranks today. Yet worrisome manifestations of authoritarianism and intolerance have surfaced in several members. Two NATO countries, Hungary and Turkey, have engaged in repeated autocratic behavior reminiscent of Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia. Such developments provide yet another...

...Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo is deputy secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and an architect of its transformation and expansion. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 NATO’s Transformation and New Partnerships...

... Cascading Human Consequences of NATO’s War in the Balkans Joan McQueeney Mitric In the period since June 1999, when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization declared victory in its high-tech bombing war against...

...Sol Schindler Ted Galen Carpenter, Editor: NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War, Washington, D.C., Cato Institute, 1999. 194 pages. ISBN 1-882577-85-X (cloth), 1-882577-86-8 (paper). $18.95 (cloth), $9.95(paper). Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Sol Schindler...

.../01 1:33 PM Page 39 NATO’s Balkan Blunder James Bissett The military intervention in Yugoslavia by North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion forces in spring 1999 raises disturbing and unresolved...

...Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo The start of the Obama administration offers an opportunity to rebuild the US–NATO transatlantic link on the foundation of shared values during the Cold War and the immediate post–9/11 response. Use of military power is not sufficient, and torture should never again...

... Council (EAPC), a group formed in 1997 and which now numbers fifty “partner” governments. EAPC is the successor to the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. (The NACC was created as an adjunct to NATO six years earlier in the first flush of post–Cold War Europe.) Among EAPC partners are not only eleven far...