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کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
Regional and international security policy is an outcome of the distribution of power between the major actors within the global community. The structural formations reflect the power in security alliances. In the last years of the Cold War, the conditions were ideal for NATO's strategy to reinforce mobility in the peripheral regions. As the structural crisis in the late 1980s intensified, the North Atlantic Treaty fell into a new situation in 1989. From this juncture onwards, the NATO's security and geopolitical mobility expanded. The first sign of NATO's strategic mobility surfaced during the years after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War within the context of international politics. Following this event, the ground was adequately set for organizational and functional evolutions in the NATO alliance. The most crucial issue concerning the NATO's member nations could be the change in regional challenges and emergence of new functions throughout the NATO's organizational activities. Any change in the structural formations could inevitably pave the way for transformation in the nature and function of the North Atlantic Treaty. In the post-Cold War years, the conditions were ripe for the emergence of regional crises and the centrifugal actors to play a role. This trend was dubbed by James Rosenau as security in a turbulent era. As such, the NATO's security policy intended to deal with threats of the transition period. The main feature of NATO's security policy must be intensified mobility and encounter with peripheral threats. Periphery within the geopolitical approach is defined and explained based on the perspective of Nicholas Spikeman. The entire regions across the marginal land regarded as the main focus of security crises can be seen as a symbol of the periphery. This paper attempted to provide an answer to the main question highlighting the foundation of NATO's security policy and its geopolitical/strategic signs. The hypothesis of this paper argued that NATO's security policy would revolve around "crisis management and control of a turbulent environment". Moreover, this paper adopted the explanatory "neoliberal functionalist approach", under which the NATO’s geopolitical mobility concentrates on the management of regional crises and building alliances with new marginal actors
کلیدواژهها [English]
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