Publication

Apr 2016

This paper contends that NATO's renewed focus on collective defense requires the organization and its members to sift through the different interpretations of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty and understand them fully. Without the effort, the meaning of collective defense will remain too imprecise for the Alliance’s own good.

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Author Bruno Tertrais
Series NDC Research Papers
Publisher NATO Defense College (NDC)
Copyright Creative Commons "Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs" (CC BY-NC-ND)
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