No. 33: Cracks in the Foundations: NATO After the Bucharest Summit

Author(s): Victor Mauer
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 33
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2008

More than any previous NATO summit, the meeting in Bucharest has highlighted the dual challenge that the Alliance has been confronted with since the fundamental upheaval of the international system in 1989/1991: While its strategic self-perception is diminishing in sharpness due to diverging interests and external factors, the divergences between the threat perceptions and strategic cultures of individual member states are endangering the success of military operations undertaken by the Alliance as a whole.

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