NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was formed in 1949 with AIM, first and most important, to act as a determination for the threat of Soviet expansion in Europe after World War. Political integration on the continent.
Its origin, however, is the 1947 date, when the United Kingdom and France signed the Treaty of Duncark as a coalition to combat the incident of a German attack in the warfartemth of the war.
The original 12 founding members of the political and military alliance are: United States, United States, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.
NATO role as a security collective
At its core, the organization, which currently has 31 members, serves as a collective security coalition. Its purpose is to provide mutual defense through military and political means if a member state is threatened by an external country.
This foundation is laid In Article 5 of CharterMass Defense Block:
“Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America will be considered an attack against everyone and as a result, if there is an armed attack, each of them has been given by Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which is to help life or parties, which are working with other parts, which are working with other parts, which are working with other parts, which are working with other parts. There are parts, which are accompanied by other parts, which are accompanied by other parts.
Article 5 has been implemented once: by the United States in view of 9/11 attacks in 2001.
A child against Soviet Russia
In 1955, the Soviet Union replied to NATO that Warsaw Pact was dubbed by forming a military alliance with seven other Eastern European Communist states.
But the collapse of the Berlin wall and the upcoming collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 paved the way for a new war security order in Europe.
Free from his Soviet hut, many former Warsaw Treaty became members of the country NATO. Members of the Visgrade Group attended Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic 1999.
Five years later, in 2004, NATO accepted the so -called Villnius group, composed of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Albania and Croatia attended 2009, while Montenegro and North Macedonia did so in 2020.
Sweden became the most recent member in March 2024 after his Nordic neighbor Finland, who joined in April 2023.
Currently three countries are classified as “aspirational members:” Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia and Ukraine.
NATO’s open-door policy
Behind the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the latter ambition of joining the alliance has again collected speed.
For Russia, the perception of its former Soviet satellite Ukraine joining NATO is a red line. The so -called open door policy of NATO, As mentioned in Article 10 of the TreatyAny European country allows that “in the security of the North Atlantic region” can grow and contribute.
On NATO’s site, “NATO willing countries interested for membership of NATO are expected to meet some political, economic and military goals to ensure that they would be that they want coalition security as well as its beneficiaries.”
Edited by: Martin Cubbler
This piece was published on the original 15 November 2022. It is updated to reflect Finland and Sweden’s membership.
