Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For an enterprise intended to preserve international amity, the expansion of NATO has produced a discomforting amount of friction and ill will. Even this week's summit could turn into a "food fight," as an American official puts it, because the U.S. has ruled that only three new countries will...
But in fact no one knows how the expansion will affect Europe or the alliance, how much it will cost or how many years or decades the growth spurt, and the conflicts that come with it, will last. Meanwhile, each time new members are taken in, new dividing lines will...
One of the many odd things about the plan to expand NATO has been the absence of debate, either in public or among the politicians who will have to judge the policy right or wrong for their countries. The discussion has only begun, and Administration officials say they are amazed...
They want to know what military threat NATO expansion is designed to counter, how it will strengthen stability in Europe, and whether U.S. lives will have to be risked to deal with "border, ethnic, nationalist and religious disputes" in Central Europe. "I'm not convinced we should be part of...
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