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The New Strategic Concept

NATO is preparing six documents for the April Summit. The Strategic Concept, the mission statement for the Alliance, is the most critical. Last updated in 1991, the new Strategic Concept will set NATO's goals and priorities into the next century.

This page provides news and analysis on the Strategic Concept as NATO debates the future of the Alliance, as well as a link to the section on the Concept in BASIC's A Risk Reduction Strategy for NATO.

Updates

• NATO Reiterates Controversial Nuclear Doctrine 25 April 1999
• No Leadership in NATO's Confused Concept 24 Apr 1999
• Comments on Draft Summit Communique 24 Apr 1999
• US Agrees to Limit Future NATO Interventions to the 'Periphery of NATO Territory' 22 Apr 1999
• DOCUMENT: Letter from Dutch Foreign Minister van Aartsen 22 Apr 1999
• DOCUMENT: Dutch Parliament Proposed Resolution on Strategic Concept 22 Apr 1999
• What Happened to the NATO Nuclear Debate? 21 Apr 1999
• Canada Urges NATO Nuclear Strategy Update for Washington Summit 21 April 1999
• NATO's 'New' Strategy Reflects Old Style 15 Apr 1999
• Canadian Senate Urges NATO Nuclear Weapons Policy Review at Summit 14 Apr 1999
• British Defense Committee Releases Report on NATO Strategy
  13 Apr 1999
• Peacekeeping in Europe Requires More Than NATO 'SWAT Team'
  7 Apr 1999
• NATO Surprised in Kosovo - Not Likely! 31 Mar 1999
• French Position on UN Authority Undermined by NATO Air Strikes 30 Mar 1999
• US Denies Global Role for NATO 16 Mar 1999
• UK Government: Kosovo Not A Precedent for NATO Missions Without UN Authorisation 8 Mar 1999
• Continents of Kosovos Await British Forces in US Vision for NATO Strategy 8 Mar 1999
• UK Open to Debate on NATO's Nuclear Doctrine 24 Feb 1999
• US Congress Members Offer Vision for NATO's Strategy 24 Feb 1999
• Defence Committee to Issue Report on Eve of NATO Summit 24 Feb 1999
• UK Clarifies 'Out-of-Area' Mandate 24 Feb 1999
• NATO Operation Without UN Mandate "Nuts" 8 February 1999

The New Strategic Concept: chapter from A Risk Reduction Strategy for NATO: Preparing for the Next 50 Years, BASIC Research Report 99.1, January 1999.

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