Titolo completo
Combining Realism with Vision. Options for NATO’s new Strategic Concept
Elaborating a Strategic Concept is a delicate undertaking which implies a good deal of resolve, far-sightedness, and realism. Allies should neither search for a new North Star nor give in to the temptation of de facto acceptance of the status quo as the optimal solution. Instead, they should make choices reflecting a synthesis, not just a list, of their security priorities. In particular, they should consider the future of the allied deterrence and defence strategies in a security environment characterised by significant political and technological changes, including by thinking about steps towards withdrawing US nuclear weapons in Europe and creating an integrated missile defence system; learn the lessons from the Balkans and Afghanistan and accord greater priority to stabilisation than to rapid reaction capabilities; recognise that compromises will be inevitable if they are serious about considering Russia as a partner, and start by pausing for a while with enlargement. Allies should also make it clear that they have no ambition of turning NATO into a world gendarme and shift towards cooperative crisis management.
Other version: Il nuovo concetto strategico della Nato: verso la quadratura del cerchio?, Roma, Senato della Repubblica, April 2010, 34 p. (Approfondimenti dell'Osservatorio di politica internazionale 11).
Introduction
1. National agendas and transatlantic solidarity
2. The credibility of article 5
3. Territorial defence, missile shield, and nuclear forces
4. Crisis management
5. Societal security
6. NATO in Europe and the world
Conclusions
