NATO Expansion

Promoting Debate on NATO Expansion

The Eisenhower Institute, through its Center for Political and Strategic Studies, has taken an active role in advising on the future of NATO.

NATO at Fifty: Perspectives on the Future of the Atlantic Alliance

Follow this link for the full text in html. See also the following book review. 

The Prague Summit: Beginning or End for NATO? 
by Sean Kay (non-resident fellow)

Sean Kay argues that the November 2002 NATO summit in Prague, which witnessed the addition of seven new countries to the Atlantic Alliance, failed to lay the groundwork for the transformation necessary to ensure the organization's relevance for today's security envirnoment. Sustaining NATO as a viable international security institution now rests largely on whether the US Senate attaches certain key amendments to the enlargement process.

NATO After the Attacks
by Sean Kay (non-resident fellow)

Following the attacks on New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, NATO invoked Article V of its Charter which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

In the immediate future, NATO's role in facilitating an international response against terrorism, particularly in Afghanistan, will be a supportive and largely informal one. Any idea of a "global NATO" has already been ruled out by the allies, reflecting the long-standing European reluctance to being drawn into American-led operations outside its immediate spheres of interest. NATO's planning procedures, consultative forums, and intelligence sharing, however, may be able to help coordinate a coalition of like-minded states as long as this involves non-European operations. To read the full article, click on this link.

NATO at Fifty: Past, Present and Future

Text of the October 8-10, 1999 Conference sponsored by The Eisenhower Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation.

Other Publications

This page contains a list of Institute publications and other related publications, testimonies and speeches.