NATO was critical to the shaping of the “new Europe” two decades earlier after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Similar and new challenges have emerged where once again NATO may be a defining factor in the future of Europe as well as the Euro-Atlantic family. The Administration of Bill Clinton, Republican Congressional leaders, and civil society, (see AEI, Atlantic Council, Brookings, Open Society Institute, etc.), pressed for more inclusive European institutions. NATO enlargement served to boost security for post-Soviet democracies but also became a fulcrum to further EU enlargement. While then-French President Mitterrand sought to sideline NATO, it ultimately …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
