NATO AND CENTRAL ASIA: WILL THERE BE PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE?
Keywords:
NATO, Central Asia, Strategic Concept, security, stability, threatsAbstract
The North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) adopted its new Strategic Concept, in which Russia was indicated as the most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area and China as the systemic challenge to the Alliance. This reflected the new stage of the evolution of the organization itself as a military-political block.
This trend is considered in the article from the point of view of concepts of international and regional security and the new world order. The main focus of analysis is directed to perspectives of cooperation of Central Asian states with NATO in the new conditions.
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