NATO Enlargement and Beyond

september 11 and nato enlargement

9/11 (september) is one of the influential events in the international politics. in fact this event opens a new chapter of transaction in international relation and has been affected great powers policy and international institution in different aspects. nato as the most important security institution in west also affected by these events. these events have been changed nato strategy in deal wi...

ON SHARING NATO DEFENSE BURDENS IN THE 1990s AND BEYOND

This article investigates NATO burden sharing in the 1990s in light of strategic, technological, political, and membership changes. Both an ability-to-pay and a benefits-received analysis of burden sharing are conducted. During 1990-99, there is no evidence of disproportionate burden sharing, where the large allies shoulder the burdens of the small. Nevertheless, the theoretical model predicts ...

Positive and normative use of fuzzy DEA-BCC models: A critical view on NATO enlargement

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a widely used mathematical programming approach for comparing the input and output of a set of comparable decision-making units (DMUs) by evaluating their relative efficiency. The traditional DEA methods require accurate measurement of both the inputs and outputs. However, the real evaluation of the DMUs is often characterized by imprecision and uncertainty in...

Cognitive Radio in NATO

An interactive MOLP method for identifying target units in output-oriented DEA models: The NATO enlargement problem

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis Target unit Undesirable output Multiple objective linear programming Minimax method a b s t r a c t Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for identifying efficient Decision Making Units (DMUs) with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. DEA provides a technical efficiency score for each DMU, a technical efficiency reference se...