NATO Case Study

Thesis: Although NATO provided assistance in containing the spread of communism, and its member countries applied economic pressure on the Soviet Union, neither NATO nor President Reagan should be solely credited with causing the fall of the Soviet Union and thus the end of the Cold War. Instead, it was a combination of the tough Reagan administration policies and NATO’s threatening military armory along with grave economic problems within the Soviet Union that ultimately brought the end to the Cold War.

(1) After the end of World War II, all involved countries, with no exception of being victorious or defeated, have started seeking of the prevention of a new disaster by reconstructing and maintaining the security and peace primarily in Europe. All huge and disastrous events (such as World Wars) which affected whole world were originated from the uncomfortable conditions and conflicts in the continent. Thus the main task was to settle a

Increased tensions between NATO and Russia have reached exceptional levels within the last decade, particularly due to aggressive territorial jockeying such as the Russo-Georgian war in 2008 and more recently, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia primary fear is the eastward expansion of NATO, which comprises states that formerly played the role of a buffer between east and west.

Generally, the United States approached the Soviet Union with two noteworthy and unchallengeable assumptions: to begin with, the suspicion of the consistent and inescapable threat of Soviet Military animosity; and, second, the presumption of the certainty of American military predominance. The first presumption led to the conclusion that arrangement with the Soviet Union on the premise of shared bargain – which is the main reason for genuine transactions’ – was futile or risky. The last two assumptions promoted the idea that arranging any form of negotiations was pointless and, likewise, perhaps ethnically wrong. Americans commonly see security in institutional terms: adapted by their own atypical

Summary: A closed think-tank meeting held JUL17 in German, has identified the Western Balkans as the next crisis area as Turkey and Russia continue to promote instability within the region. The group identified three areas, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia, as potential targets of Russian and Turkish supported annexation by Serbia and Albania. Despite Turkey’s suspicions of Russia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is cooperating more closely with President Vladimir Putin and is now seen by many NATO members as becoming a NINO (NATO in Name Only) power.

Today the United States functions in a dangerously unstable world. Proliferation, politically unstable Nations, economic instability and numerous other international issues threaten our nation and its prosperity. Therefore, the United States should protect its own global interests by striving for order and security. The US can do this by maintaining relationships between allied nations, avoid involvement in other nation’s human rights so not to hinder economic growth, and prevent proliferation of dangerous weapons in unstable groups’ hands that can threaten national and international security and stability.

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and is a military group started by the United States of America that consists of fifteen other countries including Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. “By the time Truman was inaugurated as President in January of 1949, the Cold War was intensifying. Using this tension to his advantage, Truman had campaigned on a platform that gave his future foreign policy a key role.

Through the research articles by Grigas and Feklyunina respectfully, this unsuccessful streak in Russia’s attempts for soft power were discussed as well as its reversion to hard power to attempt to redrive fear in the global space. Beginning with Grigas’ piece, the unsuccessful attempts of Russia in constraining the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in order to undermine their political, economic and civilizational choices were discussed and focussed in what caused this turn. (Grigas, 2012) While Russia still retains its military might, economic strength and a culture to inspire the denizens to obey; they still largely found it difficult to coerce the Baltic people who once obeyed their commands as the USSR. (Grigas, 2012) Grigas believes in contrast to the United States not wishing to live in the past as a global enforcer after the Cold War concluded, Russia had desired to regain the strength it had as the USSR, yet it's living in the past may have diluted its influence as well. Through Feklyunina’s piece, this desire of recreating its once ‘Russian world’ philosophy of recreating the strengths of the USSR in order to recreate the common identity. (Feklyunina, 2015)

His thesis centers on the overbearing pressure the West has placed on expanding NATO and how it is slowing trying to take more control. Mearsheimer explains that Russia’s action were to be expected given the ongoing encroachment. He finds Russia taking part of Ukraine justified given their continued fears of their boarders being compromised. Throughout the article he emphasis the danger of NATO expanding and how it has given reason for Russia to be on guard.

The United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are two different groups, but they affect the world in the same way. They both want to make a difference in today's world, they strive for peace and prosperity, and they work hard to accomplish their goals.

The first US national security interest is preserving the freedom of the seas within the Arctic region. The “boundaries of the Arctic region are not clearly

President Truman describe NATO’s creation as “… a neighbourly act taken by countries deeply conscious of their shared heritage as democracies that had come together determined to defend their common values and interests from those who threatened them … The Washington Treaty’s goal was to establish a zone of peace in an area of the world that had been at the heart of … two wars” (Asmus, 2002, pp. 46-57).

Recognising new unorthodox forms of warfare, addressing arising threats from east and south and drawing states together could be the first steps on the path towards the new Alliance, one that will be able to face its most difficult period since the end of the Cold War. It still has to work out exactly what kind of organisation it wants to be – but for the first time in twenty years, there is a sense a common purpose that even Lord Ismay wanted to convey. The Europe has to protected, be it from the Russians or anyone else and right now, the purpose of Alliance is to make sure it will

With the wartime cooperation between the Soviets and the Western Allies now broken, and the threat of further communist expansion in the very near future, the U.S. and eleven other Western nations banded together on April 4, 1949 and formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The nations that united together with the United States included the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, and Portugal. This organization sought to create a counterbalance against the powerful Soviet armies that had arisen and were placed throughout eastern and central Europe. NATO pledged that an armed attack against any of the participating countries would be considered an attack against all

There are still concerns about the conflict in Chechnya. NATO condemns, in particular, Russian threats against unarmed civilians, such as those in Grozny. They also condemn terrorism in all its forms but believe that Russia's pursuit of a purely military solution to the conflict is undermining its objectives. NATO urges Russia to exercise the fullest restraint, to refrain from the use of force against civilians and protect their human rights, to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid to those in need, and to co-operate fully with international relief agencies and to ensure security for their