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NATO Summit in Wales : From global megatrends to the new Euro-Atlanticism

Numerous representatives of theories of international relations, security theories or alliances theories were examining the new role of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) in the post-bipolar world. Parallel with theoretical defining of goals and tasks, NATO has transformed in practice, following the realities of the contemporary global era. Trying to achieve and keep the primacy of the strongest military-political organization, the Alliance has, especially in the Strategic concept from Lisbon in 2010, set the normative and institutional foundations of its global engagement, fulfilling the military (hard security) and a wide array of non-military (soft security) security challenges. That made the ‘euroatlanticism’, as a subsystem of international relations, based on strong American-European relations, to fit in the process of regionalization of global politics. However, the latest crisis in Ukraine returned the focus of interest and activities of NATO again primarily in Europe, and it stressed the importance and the need to strengthen Euro-Atlantic ties. The most powerful member of the Alliance, United States, is again strongly engaged in Europe, as Russia, as a kind of successor of the Soviet Union, is redetected as a major threat to European security. There have been many aspects of theories of international relations that tried to explain the dynamic of the post-Cold War international community. However, the approach based on neorealistic assumptions of security community, collective defense and use of military force is proved as the dominant one. NATO will keep working on its political dimension, as an alliance of democratic world, and the upcoming Wales Summit will certainly mark the return of NATO to its roots, strengthening its security and military dimensions in defending Europe from Russia.

; North Atlantic Alliance (NATO); euroatlantism; euroatlantic integration; Russia; military forces; crisis; collective defense; global security; neorealism; security dilemma

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