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The Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation, the document of understanding signed by NATO and Russia in Paris in May 1997, is a good idea on its own merits. Even though conflicting U.S. and Russian interpretations of its content undermine the act’s value, it is nonetheless worthwhile to establish a systematic means of communication between NATO and Russia and to attach Russian military officers to many NATO staffs. But NATO enlargement—whose negative impact the Founding Act was intended to cushion—remains a bad idea.
Jonathan Dean—deceased
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This text was first published as “NATO Enlargement: Coping with Act II”, in: Ted Galen Carpenter, Barbara Conry (Eds.): NATO Enlargement—Illusions and Reality (Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 1998): 121–127. The permission to republish this text was granted on behalf of the CATO Institute by Ms. Eleanor R. O’Connor on 18 March 2014.
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Madeleine K. Albright, “Statement at North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting, Sintra, Portugal, May 29, 1997,” Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State.
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Statement of the Secretary General, NATO Press Office, July 8, 1997.
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Trent Lott, “The Senate's Role in NATO Enlargement”, Washington Post, March 21, 1997.
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Lionel Barber, “No Turning Back from Brave New Europe,” Financial Times, July 17, 1997.
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George Cunningham, “EU and NATO Enlargement; How Public Opinion Is Shaping Up in Some Candidate Countries,” NATO Review, May–June, 1997.
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Vaclav Havel, “NATO’s Quality of Life”, New York Tunes, May 13, 1997; and Jim Hoagland, “At Center Stage for Havel: NATO,” Washington Post, May 9, 1996.
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Ibid.
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Dean, J. (2014). NATO Enlargement: Coping with Act II (1999). In: Brauch, H., Grimwood, T. (eds) Jonathan Dean. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06662-2_12
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