Introduction: NATO in Its Seventh Decade—A Reappraisal
Journal: Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world
Year: 2022

Abstract After the Cold War, the Atlantic Alliance played various roles, which were unthinkable in the first decades of its history. NATO performed crisis management, peacekeeping, humanitarian intervention, fight against international terrorism; all these operations took place out-of-area. Since the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, NATO re-discovered its ancient enemy, Russia, and has re-focused mainly on its traditional task, the defence of the member states’ territory. Adaptation is a constant featu