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Roli I Nato-S Në Sigurinë E Ballkanit Perëndimor, Drenushë Osmani Sep 2018

Roli I Nato-S Në Sigurinë E Ballkanit Perëndimor, Drenushë Osmani

Theses and Dissertations

Qëllim i kësaj teme të diplomës është të analizoj rolin që ka NATO, si organizatë regjionale dhe si një ndër organizatat ndërqeveritare më tërëndësishme në fushën e sigurisë sot në botë. Punimi do të zhvillohet në dy rrafshe. Nënjërën anë do të shtjellohet ideja dhe zhvillimi i NATO-s, që nga themelimi i saj deri në ditët e sotme. Roli, rëndësia dhe pesha politike e saj si gjatë Luftës së Ftohtë, pas saj e deri në ditët e sotme. Në rrafshin tjetër do të trajtohet aspekti më praktik i efektit të kësaj organizatë në rajonin e Ballkanit. Metoda e përdorur për …


Fighting Russia? Modeling The Baltic Scenarios, Ben S. Wermeling Jun 2018

Fighting Russia? Modeling The Baltic Scenarios, Ben S. Wermeling

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Geopolitics And The Balkan Other: The Uses Of “Balkanism” In Nato Expansion, Maddelyn Bryan Feb 2018

Geopolitics And The Balkan Other: The Uses Of “Balkanism” In Nato Expansion, Maddelyn Bryan

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Montenegro’s 2017 accession to NATO signaled an increased geopolitical interest in the Balkan region. Since then, governments and news sites have discussed the question of what is next for NATO in the Balkans. Similarly, a number of high-level US officials have recently travelled to the region in order to promote Western integration and NATO membership. Their discourses to encourage NATO expansion problematically coincide with discourses that “other” the region through pejorative representations. This paper interrogates this paradox by examining discourses on NATO expansion to Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia from the perspective of the US, the alliance’s largest funder. It does …


Nato Enlargement: Poland, The Baltics, Ukraine And Georgia, Christopher M. Radcliffe Jan 2018

Nato Enlargement: Poland, The Baltics, Ukraine And Georgia, Christopher M. Radcliffe

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Over the past two decades, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has enlarged several times to include a number of new countries. The first two case studies that are analyzed within this paper include key countries that were added in the 1999 and 2004 rounds of NATO enlargement: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The third case study takes a closer look at two countries, Ukraine and Georgia, that sought to become members of NATO but were denied Membership Action Plans (MAPs) because of Russian discontent and military intervention. It is questionable if Russia will use military force to disrupt the …