NATO. Handbook

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Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Неизползвана книга.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр. - в това състояние и цена в този щанд. Други екземпляри от книгата

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Издателство:: Nato office of Internation and Press
Град на издаване:: Brussels
Година:: 2001 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 535
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Военно дело и сигурност
Ширина (мм):: 150
Височина (мм):: 210
ISBN:: 92-845-0146-6

Editorial Note Since the publication of the 50th Anniversary edition of the NATO Handbook, three more countries have joined the Alliance and a number of other major developments have taken place. These include the initiation in March 1999 of NATO’s air campaign against the military structures of the Serb Government responsible for carrying out the policy of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo; the deployment of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) in June 1999, and new initiatives taken at the Washington Summit in April 1999, including the publication of the Alliance’s new Strategic Concept. These events are reflected in this edition, as well as other important developments including changes relating to NATO’s military command structure; the development of the European Security and Defence Identity (ESDI); implementation of the Defence Capabilities Initiatives (DCI); developments concerning the Partnership for Peace (PfP) and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC); implementation of the Membership Action Plan (MAP); evolution of NATO-Russia and NATO-Ukraine relations; the widening of the Alliance’s Mediterranean Dialogue; progress in relation to the South East Europe Initiative; and developments in other spheres of Alliance activity such as implementation of arms control measures and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. “How to use this Handbook” provides a guide to the contents of the principal chapters detailing the recent evolution of policy in the main spheres of Alliance activity (Part I); and an outline of the contents of subsequent chapters describing NATO’s organisation and structures (Part II). The Preface to this edition offers an overview of the principal developments shaping Alliance policy over the course of the last decade. The information contained in this edition covers developments up to the end of March 2001. Information concerning the most recent developments affecting the Alliance as well as official statements and communiqués are accessible on the NATO web site...... Foreword by the Secretary General This new edition of the NATO Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the North Atlantic Alliance at the beginning of the new millennium. It portrays an Alliance profoundly influenced and transformed by the tumultuous changes of the previous decade, ready to take on the fourfold challenge which it faces today. Firstly, it must fulfil its fundamental and continuing responsibility to its members by guaranteeing their security and independence. Secondly, it must extend security further afield to Partner countries throughout Europe, through bilateral partnerships and multilateral cooperation. Thirdly, and simultaneously, it must stand ready to back the efforts of the international community to prevent crises and conflict or, when they occur, to prevent their spread and assist those involved in them to resolve them by political means rather than the use of military force. And fourthly, to achieve these goals, it must create a fairer balance in the transatlantic partnership which is at the core of the North Atlantic Alliance, by strengthening the European role in crisis management and peacekeeping. This process is about reinforcing the Alliance and providing crisis management capabilities which NATO can support without necessarily assuming the leading role itself in every crisis which occurs in Europe. It is about introducing greater flexibility and better options for preventing or ending conflict, not about changing the basis of the collective defence for which the Alliance remains the essential guarantor. The Alliance described in this Handbook is certainly not one which has found itself short of a role after the end of the Cold War, despite predictions by some analysts that it would lose its raison d’être. Rather it is an Alliance which has had to manage its own essential process of modernisation and change without any lapse in its operational ability to fulfil its task, nor delays in developing the means to perform the new functions required of it by its member countries. Its dilemma has not been how to identify a new role for itself but rather how best to seize the opportunity of fulfilling the security agenda established for it by the member countries at its creation, namely to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples. Far from creating a role for itself, the challenge facing NATO has been to ensure that its existing roles are not compromised by too many or too vast demands on its resources. NATO is not a world policeman, but it has a proven, successful track record as a catalyst for generating effective multinational forces, such as SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina and KFOR in Kosovo, able to ensure the implementation of peace agreements and to lay the basis for future stability in areas.......

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