Partnerships
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

Abstract Partnerships are a way of extending NATO’s purposes and influence beyond its membership, and of preparing non-members for accession. In this chapter, the development of NATO’s partnership policy is divided into three phases: from the end of the Cold War to 11 September 2001 (9/11); from 9/11 to the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014; and the period after 2014. In this chapter, the treatment of these three phases is framed by a number of questions: why was the partnership policy launch