What is the role of NATO? - The Australian Financial Review
6/28/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Hans van Leeuwen, Les Hewitt
by Hans van Leeuwen, Les Hewitt
After the Cold War, the organisation went from being a defensive alliance against the Soviet Union to an expansive one aimed at European peace and stability. Now it’s trying to do both.
In the early 1990s, the Cold War ended and the map of Europe was rapidly and radically redrawn. Once the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Warsaw Pact countries and Soviet republics began breaking away … [+8770 chars]
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