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NATO Expansion - Analytical Perspectives

1999

• Full steam ahead for the NATO invitees Nikolaus W. Behner; Yvan P. Boilard (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1999 - short and long term benefits and costs to NATO and the new members as well as the military implications.
• NATO Enlargement - Round Two: Prudence or Folly? Gordon B. Hendrickson; Charles E. Costanzo (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1999 -- An additional round of NATO expansion, especially so soon after the first round, would be at best imprudent and at worst irresponsible and foolhardy.
• Juggling the Bear: Assessing NATO Enlargement in Light of Europe’s Past and Asia’s Future David S. Fadok -- USAF Institute for National Security Studies - March 1999.
• NATO ENLARGEMENT: TOWARD A SEPARATE EURO-ATLANTIC COMMAND by Hall Gardner Professor and Chair International Affairs Department American University of Paris January 30, 1999

1998

• 46 Arguments Against the Present and Future NATO Expansions TFF PressInfo 36April 22, 1998
• NATO ENLARGEMENT-THE WAY AHEAD by Alain Pellerin Canadian Council for International Peace and Security (CCIPS) 14 February 1998
• Welfare for Weapons Dealers 1998: The Hidden Costs of NATO Expansion by William D. Hartung A Special Report by the World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center -- March 1998

1997

• Russia, NATO, and the Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations Bruce Russett and Allan Stam
• NATO Enlargement: Cost Estimates Developed to Date Are Notional (Letter Report, 08/18/97, GAO/NSIAD-97-209).
• NATO: Congress Addresses Expansion of the Alliance, by Paul E. Gallis, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (Washington, DC, July 24, 1997)
• NATO Enlargement and the Former European Neutrals, by Stanley R. Sloan, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (Washington, DC, 1997)
• NATO Enlargement: Pro and Con Arguments, by Paul E. Gallis, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (Washington, DC, 1997)
• NATO: Article V and Collective Defense, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, by Paul E. Gallis (Washington, DC, July 17, 1997)
• NATO Expansion: Cost Issues, CRS Report for Congress No. 97-688 F, by Carl Ek, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (Washington, DC, July 2, 1997)
• NATO Enlargement: The Process and Allied Views, Congressional Research Service Document, by Paul E. Gallis (Washington, DC, July 1, 1997)
• NATO Enlargement: U.S. and International Efforts to Assist Potential New Members, General Accounting Office Report to the Chairman, Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives (Washington, DC, June 27, 1997)
• NATO EXPANSION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Captain Gyula Bene, Hungarian Army [United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College]
• WHAT WILL IT MEAN? THE MILITARY AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF NATO ENLARGEMENT LCDR Robin K. Myers, USN [United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College]
• NATO ENLARGEMENT Where We Came From and Where It Leaves Us AURORA PAPERS 29 by Alain Pellerin
• NATO Enlargement: U.S. and International Efforts to Assist Potential New Members (Letter Report, 06/01/97, GAO/NSIAD-97-164)
• Learning from past experience of admitting new members into NATO Ira L. Straus Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO Now that NATO is about to negotiate new protocols of accession, it is important to consider what should be the content of those protocols.

  The Network on European and Transatlantic Security (NETS) consists of British American Security Information Council (BASIC) , the Centre for European Security and Disarmament (CESD), and the Berlin Information-centre for Transatlantic Security (BITS).

  U.S. Nuclear NATO Arsenals 1996-97
  Press Release: Greece and Turkey Sign Non-Aggression Pact, 8 July 1997
  Press Release: The NATO-Ukraine Charter - First Act or Curtain Call?, 6 July 1997
  Briefing Paper 97.1: NATO-Ukraine Charter: First Act or Curtain Call? (BITS)
  Summit Briefing 97.1: The NATO-Russia "Founding Act": Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block for a European Security Architecture? (BITS)
  Summit Briefing 97.2: A Fresh Start for START - NATO Summit faces Options for Change
  Summit Briefing 97.3: Conventional Forces in Europe - Conventional Arms Control at Risk (BITS)
  Summit Briefing 97.4: NATO needs a new Approach to the Mediterranean (CIP)
  Summit Briefing 97.5: Removing the Nuclear Hair-Trigger - A Priority for the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council (BASIC)
  NATO Expansion and the Excluded Countries: A New Division in Europe
  Military Buildup in Central and Eastern Europe: NATO Membership for Sale
  
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  • as a BASIC Paper #22 (long version)
    
  
  
• The Key to Peace and American Security is NATO Expansion House Republican Policy Committee May 23, 1997
• Security in an Undivided Europe Using NATO's Eastward Expansion as an Opportunity Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)
• NATO Enlargement What Will The Congress And Public Say? Jeremy D. Rosner Armed Forces Journal International April 1997
• US NATO Policy by Lanhee Chen and Lawrence Lee Harvard Model Congress Europe March 22-24, 1997
• 3/14/97 At U.S.-Russian Summit, Stand Firm on NATO Enlargement by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. (Executive Memorandum #470)
• Enlarging NATO Now Isn't Necessary BY JAMES KLURFELD NEWSDAY Wednesday, February 26, 1997
• Proceedings of the February 1997 GWU conference on NATO and Russia organized by CEERN Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO
• America and Europe: A Partnership for a New Era RAND February 1997 - RAND authors call for transforming the outmoded cold war alliance into an ambitious new compact for promoting the economic and strategic interests of the Atlantic community throughout the world.
• PUBLIC INDIFFERENT ABOUT NATO EXPANSION Pew Research Center - January 24, 1997 The American public continues to support the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but is uninterested and equivocal about the question of expanding the alliance to include some former Soviet satellites in East Europe. ... only a narrow plurality want its membership expanded (45% to 40%). Few Americans are thinking about the issue -- just 20% have followed the debate about enlargement very closely (5%) or fairly closely (15%).

1996

• The USA and NATO Enlargement Peter Rudolf Aussenpolitik - German Foreign Affairs Review: Vol. 47 / No. 4, 1996
• Embracing Milosevic, Iranians Hasn't Worked CLINTON'S BROKEN PROMISE SIGNALS FAILURE IN BOSNIA House Republican Policy Committee August 7, 1996
• Stopping the Decline in US-Russian Relations Robert Blackwill, Arnold Horelick, Sam Nunn - 1996 RAND P-7986 "US-Russian relations are poised to resume their downward drift toward mutual alienation. The time remaining to arrest that trend before NATO enlargement further accelerates it is short."
• Enlarging NATO: The Russia Factor Richard L. Kugler 1996 RAND MR-690-OSD - NATO "enlargement can help temper East Central Europe's dangerous new-era geopolitics (geopolitics being the process by which nations interact as they try to attain their strategic objectives). It also offers an historic opportunity to bring new European democracies into the Western family of nations. Yet it will draw the West into a region of chronic turmoil."
• Policy Statement on Nato Expansion House Republican Policy Committee Issued May 20, 1996
• NATO Enlargement: NATO and U.S. Actions Taken to Facilitate Enlargement (Letter Report, 05/06/96, GAO/NSIAD-96-92).
• 3/1/96 NATO Expansion: Myths and Realities by W. Bruce Weinrod. (Committee Brief #23)
• 2/7/96 Getting NATO Back to Basics by John Hillen. (Backgrounder #1067)
• NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States - 1996 RAND RP-548 Dealing with the Baltics in the context of NATO enlargement is one of the most delicate questions facing the Alliance. This study examines the need to develop a strategy for stengthening Baltic independence and anchoring these states in the West, for a variety of compelling reasons.
• NATO Expansion and the Danger of a Second Cold War by Stanley Kober Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 38 January 31, 1996

1995

• "Moving Forward From NATO’s 'Study on NATO Enlargement'" (a critical analysis of the internal NATO study on enlargement, November 1995, 30 pages)
• 10/6/95 National Defense and America's Alliances by Kim R. Holmes. (Heritage Lecture #542)
• Admitting New Members: Can NATO Afford the Costs? 1995 RAND P-7903 " the burden on current NATO members to defend the Central Front, if there were a resurgent Russian threat to the alliance, would be greater if Poland were not a member of the alliance than if Poland were a member."
• NATO EXPANSION and ALTERNATIVE FUTURE SECURITY ALIGNMENTS JAMES W. MORRISON McNair Paper 40 April 1995

1994

• RUSSIA-IN-NATO? The Fourth Generation of the Atlantic Alliance by Ira L. Straus - based on remarks made at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow in December 1994.
• PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE: DISCERNING FACT FROM FICTION William T. Johnsen and Thomas-Durell Young August 15, 1994 -- US Army Strategic Studies Institute
• Bringing Eastern Europe and Russia into NATO COMMITTEE ON EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA IN NATO APRIL 1994
• NATO at the Crossroads: Reexamining America's Role in Europe. B.C. Schwarz RAND IP-133- 1994 "Current debate suggests that NATO must extend eastwards or risk falling apart ... the dissolution of NATO should not be immediately assumed to be bad for the United States. For example, if the volatile Eurasian countries join NATO, the United States risks involvement in border wars in which it has no national interest."

1993

• Extending the Western Alliance to East Central Europe: A New Strategy for NATO. Z. Khalilzad RAND IP-107-AF 1993 "NATO must be extended to the nations of East Central Europe to prevent instability in that region. Such extension would have the added benefit of reinvigorating NATO, which otherwise risks dissolution due to economic friction among its members."

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