My kind of NATO: Perceptions from Albania 31 pages, pdf  Download Back

My kind of NATO: Perceptions from Albania

Publisher: Ilir Kalemaj, Elira Hroni

Volume: 31 pages, pdf

Description:

In 63 years, since April 4th, 1949, when the Washington Treaty was signed by 12 nations, officially declaring creation of NATO, tremendous changes have taken place globally. They have influenced and shaped politics, economy, security, demography, even environment and the climate of our planet. NATO, as well, have got to change and adapt, following and sometimes ahead of these changes.

During the whole Cold War era, NATO’s purpose was to provide security for its member states, threatened by the East, in a dramatic political-ideological confrontation. Democratic changes in Europe, during 90’s called for a new NATO, fundamentally concerned about stabilizing and transforming Central and Eastern Europe, providing a basis for these countries to transform themselves, to throw off dictatorship of the past, and become prosperous and real part of the West.