Реферат: NATO Essay Research Paper The North Atlantic
be in the future for this troubled culture. The organization has already placed
in the works the inclusion of the Czech Republic (formerly part of
Czechoslovakia), Hungary, and Poland. These talks are setting the stage for
NATO?s most significant expansion. These countries will need modern military
training, upgrades on their communications, command, and air defense systems at
an estimated cost of between $25 and $35 billion over thirteen years. The
members of NATO pay out this money, the US share being approximately $200
million over ten years. There was a time that even the thought of these
countries entering NATO peacefully was unheard of. These new members make
NATO?s interests in the Balkans even more timely. Over the past few years, the
establishment of a long-term stability in the Balkans has fallen on NATO?s
already overweighed shoulders. The former Yugoslavia is one area of Europe where
the end of the cold war has not brought about the general trend towards
openness, democracy and integration that we have seen elsewhere. Ending this
anomaly will mean looking beyond the time frame of NATO?s Stabilization Force
in Bosnia. Once the parties realize that settling differences peacefully and
democratically really is the only viable option, then Bosnia and other countries
in the region will have the right to the fullest integration into the
international community. In Kosovo, where the world community is facing
humanitarian, political and legal dilemmas, a solution must be found that allows
the Ethnic Albanians more autonomy within the confines of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia. In finding such a solution, we must avoid a situation where moral
considerations are pitted against international law. And we must remember that a
security policy that doesn?t take as its point of reference the needs of
humanity, risks suffering the worst possible fate- a slide into irrelevance. In
Kosovo?s immediate neighborhood, NATO has helped to provide hope and some
stability, as well as assistance in coping with the refugees in Albania and
Macedonia. The latter country is hosting a NATO extraction force, ready to
support the verification mission deployed in Kosovo. Hopefully, the prospect of