Publication

This publication describes how more than any previous NATO summit, the meeting in Bucharest has highlighted the dual challenge that the Alliance has been confronted with since the upheaval of the international system between 1989 and 1991. The author explains that while the strategic self-perception of NATO 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.