NATO 2010 Strategic Concept (archived)

The GLOBSEC NATO Adaptation Project envisages a series of papers to be released over the next several months which will address the nature of NATO adaptation and the challenges it must overcome if it is to remain a viable and credible alliance for the peace and stability of Europe and North America.

This report discusses whether NATO is about to become a security organization à la carte , engaging in security tasks on a case-by-case basis and alternately serving the interests of different member states, constellations and external partners. The authors observe that both in terms of tasks and relations, NATO has gone through changes in rhetoric and action that alters its traditional role.

Heritage Foundation expert in European affairs and defense issues Sally McNamara lays out guidelines for NATO so that its new Strategic Concept does not end up a paper tiger.

This Technical Report examines the military and institutional dimensions of NATO transformation and how they may affect how the Alliance and the Canadian Forces approach the challenge of deploying and sustaining forces in the field. The first part of the report defines key terms and explores the strategic environment in which NATO finds itself. The second part evaluates the status of the transformational process through the lens of recent strategic guidance, enlargement, outreach to individual and institutional partners, and current economic realities. Preliminary conclusions reveal that strategic developments have awakened policy-makers to the importance of operational support to current and anticipated missions, and that innovations in capability development may be realized in the face fiscal austerity.

Oksana Antonenko is IISS Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia and Igor Yurgens is Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Development, Moscow

'The future of the North Atlantic Alliance is of paramount importance for EU foreign policy. Yet no official EU perspective has been publicly formulated on NATO's 2010 strategic concept, or how it should complement the EU's foreign and security policies. This report is a contribution to the debate about NATO's future, and what that may mean for the EU.'

The Euro-Atlantic Council of Macedonia in line with the activities it has been taking as part of the overall debate on the new NATO Strategic Concept issued a document stating the analysis and the positions regarding the vision for NATO 2020.

'The primary aim of the present report is to define the positions of NATO members with respect to the most important issues that are likely to be discussed in the debate on the new strategic concept.'

This report deals with the main security risks that currently exist, the challenges facing NATO and the diverse security concerns within the Alliance. On the basis of this analysis proposals are made for the stance to be taken by the Dutch government in the negotiations on a new Strategic Concept.

The appendix includes various documents relating to NATO strategy and development.

The Washington NATO Project is a cooperative effort by four U.S. think tanks: the Atlantic Council of the United States; the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP), National Defense University (NDU); and the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR) at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

Dr Jean-Jacques de Dardel is the Ambassador of Switzerland to NATO and to the Kingdom of Belgium (2009)

See "Should NATO Write a New Strategic Concept?" by Richard L. Kugler and Hans Binnendijk, p. 275-301

'The authors propose the development of a new strategic concept for NATO. They offer ideas on how to solve the problem of the rivalry with the EU, and how to give NATO access to other than military instruments. They further propose bringing future enlargement and partnership into line with NATO’s strategic objectives and purpose.'