Guaranteeing Europe’s secururity? Enlarging Nato again
Publisher: Stuart Croft
Volume: 18 pages, pdf
Description:
Summits of heads of goverment and state can be grand and important affairs, where leaders meet to take and ratify important decisions. NATO will next hold such an event in November 2002 in Prague, where same or all od the nine applicant states in central and eastern Europe will be invited to join the allience. NATO summits generally see the announcement of grand initiviativite. In Washington in 1999 the fiftieth birthday summit, although overshadowed by the war in Kosovo, nevertheless saw a number of initiatives, including a new strategic concept, the Defence Capabilities Initiative, and the Balkans Stability Pact.