Challenge of NATO Enlargement

ANTON A. BEBLER is Professor of Political Science and of Defense Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia./e He authored and edited several books as well as numerous chapters and scholarly articles. In 1991-1992, Dr. Bebler chaired the Slovenian Council of the European Movement. He joined the Slovenian Foreign Service in 1992 and, until September 1997, served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the UN Office in Geneva. In 1998 he was elected President of the Atlantic Council of Slovenia.

• The Rationale, Intentions, and General Framework of the Enlargement NATO Beyond Enlargement by Javier Solana Security Cooperation and the New NATO by Norman W. Ray NATO and the New SHAPE by George A. Joulwan NATO's Enlargement: Anatomy of a Decision by Jonathan Eyal The Problems of Enlargement by Theo Sommer The Need for a Post-Enlargement Strategy by Jeffrey Simon EU Enlargement and European Security by Fraser Cameron A Research Note on Eligibility for NATO Membership by Anton A. Bebler NATO, Russian Federation and Ukraine The Expansion of NATO in the Context of Global Politics by Mikhail S. Gorbachev Dubious Security by Alvin Z. Rubinstein On the NATO-Russia Founding Act by Nikolai N. Afanasievskii NATO Enlargement and Ukraine by Oleksandr Pavliuk The Invited Newcomers and Regional Stability To the Senate of the United States by William J. Clinton Poland as a NATO Member by Bronislaw Geremek Polish Public Attitudes toward Joining NATO by Krzystof Ostrowski The Czech Republic and Western Integration by Otto Pick Hungary's Security and the Enlargement by IstVAn Gyarmati NATO's Metamorphosis and Its New Members by Daniel N. Nelson and Thomas S. Szayna The Three Central European Militaries and the Enlargement by Dale R. Herspring EU and NATO Enlargement and Stability in Central-Eastern Europe by Monika Wohlfeld The Deferred and Other Central-Eastern European Candidates Slovenia and the "Gray Zone" in Europe by Anton A. Bebler Romania Endeavors to Join NATO by Adrian Severin Slovakia and NATO by Eduard Kukan The Enlargement and the Baltic States by Bo Huldt The European Neutrals and Nordic States The Austrian Debate on NATO Membership by Hanspeter Neuhold Neutrality and NATO Enlargement by Curt Gasteyger NATO Enlargement: A Nordic Perspective by Niels-Joergen Nehring Postcript by Anton A. Bebler Appendices Selected Bibliography