NATO Expansion to the East: Georgia’s Way to NATO Membership, Perspectives and Challenges
Journal: Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2014

The article explores possible NATO enlargement to the East. The study is based on case study analyses and has two objectives:to provide analyses of the dynamics of Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic process, and to show how this process corresponds toexisting experience and practice. Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations, integration path, and domestic and external factors have all been taken into consideration, as have the degree to which Russia can negatively influence the eastward enlargement process, and