at the crux of the evolution of nato’s new missions and partnerships over the past two decade has been the question of how to deal with the russian federation. this remains the key question today. therefore, this article examines the options nato and russia face in developing a new nato-russia institutional framework. the article begins with a brief outline of enlargement of nato towards east a...

This article presents a simple cooperative game theory representation of alliance formation and expansion to counter a conventional threat along the allies’ borders. Mutual defense gains, derived from allying, arise from interior borders that no longer require protection. Spatial and locational attributes of the allies are crucial when identifying the gains from mutual defense and the distribut...

The Ukraine-Russia conflict is a complex one. Some countries intend to defend national interests regarding border areas, energy sources, and international trade routes such as the United States, NATO, China. States-NATO trying maintain status quo over Euro-Arctic region. Meanwhile, China took advantage of this expand into European market. In addition, has also benefited in military sector moder...

Last year the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved the expansion of the Atlantic alliance. Whereas some advocates of enlarging NATO, particularly Eastern European leaders for whom the Soviets’ iron grip is an all too recent memory, stress the extension of the alliance’s traditional deterrent function, others acknowledge that Russia is in no position to reconquer its former empire. Rather, they a...

As a small Russian exclave some 300 kilometers away from the bulk of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast is rarely mentioned in discussions of NATO expansion. (Kaliningrad is the Russian name of the city and oblast , or province. In German, the city now called Kaliningrad was long known as Königsberg; in Polish it was Królewiec; and in Lithuanian Karaliaucius. The Russian name will be us...

Headquarters 23 Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC, Rhine Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire GUll 2AX • Introduction In 1984 the Government announced the enhancement of 5 Airborne Brigade (5 AB Bde) for operations outside the NATO area (Out of Area or OOA operations)!. These enhancements included the .. addition of a medical unit (a field ambulance formed from the expansion of the existing Parachute Cl...

The NATO wide area network provides secure IP services to NATO commands and agencies, and offers information exchange gateways to nations and coalition operations. The IP services support the NATO-wide deployment of core automated information systems (AIS), and the placement of specific functional area services (e.g., intelligence, logistics, C2IS for the services, etc.) at commands. To maintai...

With the end of WWII, Western Allies and Soviet Union's wartime coordination became dysfunctional. In 1949, United States its allies Canada, along with many European states established North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to guarantee collective defense against Union. fall Union, world unipolar when prior opponents were no longer remained challenge supremacy. Hence, political analysts star...

This article analyses the changes and continuities in Russian Military Strategy response to NATO’s expansionist policies. The methodology used is interdisciplinary nature as discourse based conceptualized historical context with social insights into contemporary development of events. paper divided two sections: first concerns expansion, both during after Cold War period; second examines propos...