Against
No more NATO
NATO was founded to promote democratic values and encourage cooperation on defense and security issues. Since the end of the cold war, NATO and the UN have become nearly interchangeable in and benefit mutually. Now however, it seems that the UN is beginning to be the leader in international crisis management and humanitarian issues it, it begs the question of two such entities.
No more NATO
NATO was founded to promote democratic values and encourage cooperation on defense and security issues. Since the end of the cold war, NATO and the UN have become nearly interchangeable in and benefit mutually. Now however, it seems that the UN is beginning to be the leader in international crisis management and humanitarian issues it, it begs the question of two such entities.
NATO has lost its way
A clear mission statement or vision is required for any organization. NATO's is clearly stated in its title: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The countries in this organization are united by geography, climate, trade and security concerns relating to the Northern Atlantic Ocean.
Except, of course, that NATO now includes a number of nations that are neither northern nor Atlantic, most notably Turkey. With the addition of these states, NATO has ceased to be a union and has instead become an expansion arm of the USA, reaching further and further beyond its original mandate. NATO now represents the expansionist vision of the USA and has such become a destabilizing influence, as seen in the plan to extend into landlocked European states such as Georgia and the Ukraine.
The commonalities of the original partnership are gone. NATO has become a destabilizing influence. NATO is adrift and irrelevant.
Except, of course, that NATO now includes a number of nations that are neither northern nor Atlantic, most notably Turkey. With the addition of these states, NATO has ceased to be a union and has instead become an expansion arm of the USA, reaching further and further beyond its original mandate. NATO now represents the expansionist vision of the USA and has such become a destabilizing influence, as seen in the plan to extend into landlocked European states such as Georgia and the Ukraine.
The commonalities of the original partnership are gone. NATO has become a destabilizing influence. NATO is adrift and irrelevant.
For
NATO unites Europe and North america.
No wars have taken place in any country that is part of NATO after they joined. No one is going to strike up a war with the Western world if they know that they'll be fighting all of them... Eastern Europe is safe from Russia, Ukraine and Georgia are trying to join, and they stand for Democracy.
New International Threats
NATO can be effective in today's society by combating the new threats today's world faces. Instead of focusing on the rapidly declining interstate conflicts (as a result of interdependence), they can focus on threats such as cyber warfare, terrorism, and piracy. This could compliment well with NATO's decreasing resources and eliminate the need for a large standing army.
NATO should be expanded
NATO, is an effective military body, in the same way the United Nations has been a successful diplomatic body. One of the major problems with the preceding league of nations, was the lack of 'teeth'. NATO is a unified body designed to make military co-operation for efficient. World peace is for the most part pie in the sky, it is true that their have been no major global conflicts in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty first. As the recent events in North Korea demonstrate war can occur as relations demonstrate. Although china is a trading powerhouse the western world should not grow complacent in the fact that china is a human rights abuser and steals military secrets with its state sanctioned and supported hacking programs. NATO can expand from a military treaty and is still highly relevant in anti-piracy and flash points around the world particular in the middle east and Africa
