Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton is writing letters to Boris Yeltsin, trying to convince him that NATO's expansion to the east will not threaten a "cold peace...
President Clinton's missives highlight the fundamental ambiguity in NATO's role in a post-Cold War world. The purpose of the Atlantic alliance has always been to prevent Soviet domination of the European continent, but now that the Soviet threat is gone, has NATO's time passed...
Further, U.S. involvement in NATO is necessary for the long-run stability of Europe, which now must absorb a unified Germany and several emerging democracies into its balance. NATO's secondary purpose has always been to keep Germany's power from frightening its neighbors. Europe needs a continued American presence to mediate continental politics...
...such, NATO has tentatively committed itself to expanding east, and this is a wise move. While the West fears harming the democratic movement in Russia by moving too fast with NATO expansion, it risks far more by moving too slowly...
...morning panel, three Harvard scholars aired their views on the issue of "The United States and Global Human Rights." The Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, a Divinity School professor, argued that multilateral organizations like NATO hold the most promise for improving human rights around the Globe...