Partnership for Peace

Manfred Wrner, the late Secretary General of NATO, often joked that had someone told him in 1988 that only four years later he would chair meetings with the Russian or Ukrainian foreign ministers present, he would have urged that individual to immediately have his head examined.Today, meetings of this sort have become a regular feature of NATO's activities--so regular in fact that we sometimes forget how significant these changes are.Perhaps this latter fact explains why Partnership for Peace (PfP), a NATO initiative aimed at deepening security cooperation with non-NATO countries, has attracted so much public interest since it was launched at the NATO Summit in January 1994.[1]For some, it reflected a significant step forward in bringing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe closer to NATO.For others, it was nothing more than a security placebo, offering secondary benefits but withholding the primary one: full membership in the Alliance.In the United States in particular, PfP became an issue for the op-ed pages, where its merits were either hyped or ridiculed.Partnership for Peace thus suffered the same fate as does many a coffee table book: people talk about it, many have strong opinions about it, yet few know its content

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  Open Access•Kyle J Wolfley•Foreign Policy Analysis•2021

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