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THE EVOLUTION OF NATO’S PARTNERSHIPS STRATEGY - DEMOCRATIC PEACE OR CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

This paper examines the evolution of NATO's partnership strategy after the end of the Cold War and the possibilities for further developments. Since 1991, NATO started to develop its partnership strategy through cooperative security arrangements. 1 NATO's partnership strategy included elements of interest-based cooperative security, trying to establish cooperative relationship with new democracies surviving transition periods but still not being consolidated democracies. More value-oriented partnership has been offered to those countries, which intended to apply for membership in NATO. 2 In 2006, the United States proposed the idea another NATO's partnership initiative – " Global Partnership " 3 with the aim to establish institutional arrangement that would be a premium club for NATO's partners identified as sharing same values with NATO. Global partnership also aims to bind some so-called NATO's contact countries that contribute to the NATO-led operations 4 institutionally with NATO. NATO's partnership strategy has two options to move forward, moving towards democratic peace 5 or clash of civilizations 6. These options mean choosing between the global approach with intensified development of value-based partnerships identifying Us and Others (oriented towards clash of civilization) or developing interest-based partnerships on regional basis simultaneously with the development of the value-based security community (oriented towards democratic peace). The variety of options is also influenced by different security cultures evolved in the United States and in some European Allies.