Partnership for Peace: Stabilizing the East

• Main Author: Simon, Jeffrey
• Other Authors: NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1994
• Subjects: Government and Political Science; *POLITICAL ALLIANCES; NATO; EUROPE; REPRINTS; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; STRATEGY; STABILIZATION; HISTORY; WARSAW PACT COUNTRIES; COOPERATION; DEMOCRACY; COMMUNITY RELATIONS; PEACEKEEPING; NACC(NORTH ATLANTIC COOPERATION COUNCIL); NAC(NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL); PFP(PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE); North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA528809; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA528809

NATO has grappled with a Europe in transformation since the revolutions of 1989 and has reached out to countries of the former Warsaw Pact since its July 1990 declaration. The Alliance had to decide how to accommodate the East after the November 1991 Rome summit adopted a new strategy to replace the doctrine of Flexible Response which dated from the late 1960s. The summit also began to deal with the challenges of the post-Cold War era by establishing the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) to address Europe's eastern security issues. While NACC had laudable goals, its limitations were obvious. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in late 1991 and the decision to include former republics as new members meant that rather than the anticipated five non-Soviet Warsaw Pact states and the Soviet Union, NACC would have twenty-plus new members. The great diversity among NACC partners (for instance, between Poland and Uzbekistan) led to demands for differentiation and membership in the Alliance by many NACC members. Thus, despite well-intended goals, demands placed on NACC by cooperation partners made the organization's lack of preparation evident. NATO's most recent response came in January 1994 when the North Atlantic Council (NAC) adopted the Partnership for Peace (PFP) program. Published in Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), p36-45, Summer 1994.