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标题：The changing nature of NATO: towards a regional security organization?
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作者：David García Cantalapiedra ; Javier García González
期刊名称：UNISCI Discussion Papers
印刷版ISSN：1696-2206
出版年度：2010
期号：22
页码：130-141
语种：English
出版社：Universidad Complutense de Madrid
摘要：This article deals with the role of NATO as a cornerstone of the Transatlantic Relationship, and its possible development as a regional or global organization. In this regard, NATO has launched the development of a new Strategic Concept and Transatlantic Relations are being redefined in an international context of loss of US hegemony. Obama’s foreign policy strategy is to reposition the US for a much more multipolar world, while, at the same time, the European integration is progressing and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is being developed. Europe is not longer the centre of the US strategic policy, and the European Union has its own interests to defend, especially in its neighbourhood. However, the United States and the European allies still have common threats and shared security interests, and NATO is still the primary Transatlantic security institution. An Alliance exclusively focused on European Security and collective defence is probably not interesting for the US anymore, but a global NATO, with global reach and global partners, is not acceptable for European countries. A NATO with regional identity, but open to discuss common challenges and threats of global nature is an intermediate option.
关键词：Transatlantic Relations ;NATO ;ESDP ;European Security ;New Strategic Concept ;Relaciones transatlánticas ;OTAN ;PESD ;Seguridad Europea ;Nuevo Concepto Estratégico