Word: nato
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Russia has its own concerns with another international grouping: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has always been and will remain a mutual defense pact, but it has also always been much more than that. During the cold war, even while attending to its principal job of deterring the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO helped to consolidate civilian-led democracy in Spain and to keep the peace between Greece and Turkey. As NATO adapts its mission and expands its membership to meet new challenges and opportunities, it will be a positive factor in the promotion of democracy...
Obviously, the Russians are still a long way from seeing NATO enlargement in this benign light. Our ability to work out disagreements with them over this issue is going to be an important test of the U.S.-Russian relationship. Last month President Clinton set the alliance's 50th anniversary in 1999 as a deadline for the admission of the first new members...
...Bill Clinton is still campaigning. He is still working the rope lines, empathizing like all get-out. He astonished NATO foreign ministers when he answered a question about the long-term military security of Western Europe by saying his Administration had put 100,000 policemen on the street and created 10.5 million new jobs. And Clinton continues to stake out the middle ground by bringing up tiny but symbolic issues like school uniforms--practicing what some analysts call "the politics of miniaturization...
...credited with convincing the President to commit troops. The Administration's China policy is still a work in progress, but we can credit Christopher with injecting realism into U.S. policy with respect to China, although there is still a problem balancing human rights concerns with trade issues. As NATO expansion continues, Christopher's successor will need to execute some elegant diplomacy with the Russians, who continue to protest the alliance's plans...
Dole sees Russia as "all too willing to repeat old patterns, challenging the interest of America and the West." He blasts Clinton's "misguided romanticism" about Russia, but aside from pushing NATO expansion, he too recoils from a hard line for fear it could aid Boris Yeltsin's revanchist enemies...