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Author:: David S. Yost
Publication Date:: 01-2008
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: The greatest achievements include the Alliance's enlargement from 19 to 26 allies and the progress made in fulfilling the vision of the [November 2002] Prague Summit for the transformation of NATO's military posture. The vision includes the creation of the NATO Response Force and the establishment of Allied Command Transformation. Thanks to Prague, since 2003 the Alliance has had two strategic commands; one for operations — Allied Command Operations located in Mons, Belgium — and one for transformation, Allied Command Transformation, in Norfolk, Virginia. The Alliance has also established three operational level commands. This new command structure involved a major headquarters realignment and significant manpower downsizing, plus the disestablishment of numerous headquarters.
Topic:: NATO, International Organization, and International Political Economy
Political Geography:: Europe, Belgium, Virginia, and Norfolk

Author:: Joseph F. Pilat and David S. Yost
Publication Date:: 05-2007
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: NATO Defense College
Abstract:: The participants agreed that the NPT is under challenge. Since the late 1990s, there has been growing concern about increasing proliferation dangers, including rogue states and terrorists; cooperation on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) among rogue states; technology diffusion via the Internet as well as through “loose nukes,” materials leakage and brain drain from former Soviet republics, Pakistan and other states and through non-state actors like the A. Q. Khan network; and problems with export controls. The prospects of radiological or nuclear terrorism are seen to be rising; and concern over a proliferation/terrorism nexus after 9/11 has never been higher.
Topic:: Security, NATO, International Cooperation, and Nuclear Weapons

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