Creating a Disaster: NATO’s Open Door Policy
Journal: Political Science Quarterly
Year: 2016

THE UNITED STATES AND ITS NATO ALLIES have gotten themselves into a real pickle. With their decision to enlarge NATO by taking in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, they have created three predicaments. Each is serious, none is easy to solve, and all require resolution. The first predicament is: Where does enlargement stop? Who gets to join NATO and who does not? The weightiest members of the alliance have not determined in their own minds how many new members to take in. Yet, they have se