NATO’s New Strategic Concept – A Few Thoughts Related to Russia.Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 7, 2009

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was built to protect the security of its member states, and has evolved, alongside the European Union, into a premier pillar of European security. Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, however, there is one major piece of unfinished post-Cold War business: fitting the former Soviet lands into a pan-European security framework.