TURKEY AND NATO AT THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW CENTURY by Süleyman DEMIREL

Anniversaries are appropriate occasions to evaluate the past as well as to look to the future. The fiftieth anniversary of NATO, which was founded out of the ashes of the Second World War, should be more than a mere celebration of the uniqueness of NATO and its past achievements. It should bring about a forward-looking vision of the new NATO and its key role in helping to preserve peace and security throughout the Euro-Atlantic area....

NATO IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Javier SOLANA

The Atlantic Alliance is one of the longest-lasting alliances in history. For 40 years this transatlantic organisation weathered the rough waters of Europe's Cold War division. After the East-West conflict had come to an end, it set out to build a new security architecture for an undivided Europe. The continent-wide network of partnership and co-operation, the accession of new members, the new relationship with Russia and Ukraine, and not least NATO's key role in the Balkans...

NATO'S NEW MISSIONS by Gülnur AYBET

From its inception in 1949 until the early 1990s, NATO functioned as a classic collective defence organisation, by definition and practice. The collective defence measures of NATO were legally embodied in article five of the Washington Treaty, whereas the implementation of the deterrence value of that collective threat was made effective largely by NATO's nuclear defence posture, the cornerstone of which was the concept of extended deterrence. Thus, this arrangement of NATO successfully provided for the defence of its members against a potential attack from the then Soviet Union....

REFLECTIONS ON THE TRANSATLANTIC LINK  by Lawrance CHALMER

These reflections are prepared as if the reader were seeing a transcribed speech as delivered to an international audience fifteen years in the future. The author's intentions in using this mechanism are to explore the uncertain future of international relationships using the readers' lenses in viewing a fictional individual's retrospective. The readers' familiarity with many of the public discussions currently regarding NATO activities and its fourth enlargement may act as a baseline upon which these reflections are intended to build....

NATO: CAUCASUS IN THE CONTEXT OF PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE by Revaz ADAMIA

During most of this century, the republics of the South Caucasus included that region of the Soviet Union which had a direct border with the NATO member country, Turkey. Being an important flank of one of two superpowers meant having distinct, specific and deliberate politics in the region....

NATO'S ENLARGEMENT by Andrzej ANANICZ

The Alliance's Madrid Declaration-furnishing Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary with the possibility of opening up accession negotiations-amounted to crossing the threshold into a new stage in our relations with NATO, relations which are dominated by strivings for the broadest possible inclusion of our countries in the practical workings of the Alliance....

NATO AND EUROPEAN DEFENCE by Stephen J. GOMERSALL

Last autumn the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, initiated a debate on European defence questions. Its aim is to ensure that Europe plays a greater role in contributing to its own security and at the same time to strengthen NATO. Is this a paradox? I believe not...

NORWAY AND NATO AT 50 by Sverre  LODGAARD

Norway has been a member of the Atlantic Alliance since its inception. It has been a loyal member, often named ‘best in the class.' There is no rule without exceptions, however, during President Reagan's rearmament drive in the 1980s, Norway entered the list of so-called...

NATO'S NEW COMMAND STRUCTURE by Klaus NAUMANN

As NATO celebrates its 50th anniversary, the longest-lasting and most successful defensive alliance in the history of mankind has much to be proud of. Not only did it effectively deter aggression and eventually bring an end to the monolithic threat facing member nations for nearly four decades, but it has also continued to thrive in the multi-faceted and challenging security environment of the post-Cold War era....  

THE UNCERTAINTIES AND CHALLENGES AHEAD: A SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE by Ömür ORHUN

It is appropriate to evaluate Turkey's human rights record on the 75th, anniversary of the Republic of Turkey. An evaluation will shed light on Turkey's achievements in this field.
What does human rights mean to us with regard to living in a modern state? The evolution of human rights has made the individual the focus of contemporary ....

A VIGOROUS NATO FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE ROLE OF NATO PARLIAMENTARIANS by Bruce GEORGE

The North Atlantic Assembly (NAA) is an inter-parliamentary transatlantic organisation which, since 1955, has acted as a forum for legislators from the North American and Western European NATO countries who meet together regularly to consider issues of common interest and concern. The 188 parliamentarians convene twice a year to meet in plenary session in five committees-Civilian Affairs, Defence and Security, Economic, Political, and Science and Technology....

NATO AND THE BALKANS by Elena ZAMFIRESCU

Writing on NATO and the Balkans1 is by no means an easy task. Even more than in other parts of the Old Continent, the post-1989 contradictory developments in the area called, more or less accurately, ‘the Balkans', defy the long-standing inclination of analysts to think in either/or terms. Front-page mass media reports about NATO's involvement in stopping armed conflicts in the territory of former Yugoslavia do quite often obscure other essential dimensions of the multifaceted presence of the Alliance within the area....

NATO'S SCIENCE PROGRAMME AND THE COMMITTEE ON THE CHALLENGES OF MODERN SOCIETY by A.Nejat INCE

BOOK REVIEW

"DOCUMENTS ON THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK JEWS" Researched and Edited by PHOTINI CONSTONTOPOULOU-THANOS VEREMIS, Athens: Kastaniotis Editions SA, 1998, pp. 472.

M. Murat HATIPOGLU
The study published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece and the University of Athens (namely the Department of Political Science and Public Administration) consists of four main parts. After the foreword (pp. 9-10), a prefatory note (pp. 11-12) and the Prologue (pp. 15-25), the reader can follow the four parts of the book under the titles ...

BOOK REVIEW

"THE MAKING OF TURKISH BOGEYMAN"   A Unique Case of Misrepresentation in German Journalism by TAMER BACINOGLU, Istanbul: Graphis, 1998, pp. 196.

Leonard A.STONE
In this book, translated from the German into English, the author, Tamer Bacinoglu, makes a compelling, extremely well documented and thorough examination of the negative attitudes which German journalism and scholarship harbour for Turkey. The author, residing in Germany, focuses on a range of themes which preoccupy German journalists and scholars, while singling out the following four topics for special attention: Turkey and Islam, the ‘Kurdish problem', Sunni versus Alawis, and Armenians....