Us Foreign Policy Towards Nato
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Us Foreign Policy Towards Nato
United States Policy Towards NATO
In this paper I will first explain the history of NATO and the United States policy towards
it. I will then give three reasonable policy recommendations for the United States towards
NATO. This is important because NATO is an organization with a very brief history but it has
molded Europe and other countries and has made a safe-haven from war for the past five decades.
NATO was spawn out of the Western countries of Europe fearing the expansion of the
greedy, hungry Stalin of the Soviet Union which would directly lead to the expansion of
communist governments. Also, “in 1949 most of the states of Europe were still enfeebled by
wartime devastation, striving for economic recovery, attempting to reestablish shattered political
institutions, resettle refugees and recover from the second major upheaval in 30 years.”1 After
the second world war Stalin, of the Soviet Union, started to spread his communist government to
many Eastern European countries fast. Just a couple years before all of this an alliance was made
between many nations called The United Nations. This is where the base idea of NATO came out
of. There is a particular article in the United Nation’s charter, article 51, which paved the way.
Article 51 read: Nothing in the present charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or
collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations, until the
security council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately
reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of
the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems
necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.2 So, armed with this
article, ten European countries turned to the United States and Canada to draft a pledge of mutual
security and on April 4, 1949, they all met in Washington to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. The
fear that created this alliance could not better be seen than in Winston Churchill’s, prime minister
of Great Britain, telegram to President Truman saying: “An iron curtain is being drawn down
upon their(Soviet Union) front. We do not know what is going on behind. . .”3 With this quote
from the British Prime Minister we could see ...
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