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Taking a look into the engine room of the partnership business of NATO, this paper examines the potential and the challenges related to the reform of the Alliance’s partnership policy. In order to deal with the different types and requirements of partnerships, NATO has introduced a "one-size-fits-all” format for cooperation with non-NATO countries. This new approach might ease the management of the variety of partners, but at the same time it leaves more political questions open than it answers.