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A 6 page paper. According to the original treaty, NATO boasts an open door policy, however, to join this alliance, countries must complete a number of steps and they must be capable of fulfilling the responsibilities associated with membership. There is significant controversy as to whether or not NATO has any real purpose today. These issues are discussed as is the criteria and process for joining NATO. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The first Secretary-General was General Hastings Ismay from Britain (Flintoff, 2009). The original purpose of NATO was to defend and protect Europe from the Soviet Union (Flintoff, 2009). The membership
of NATO has more than doubled to 28 members in the intervening years. There has been more than a decade between new members joining the Alliance and in other cases,
only a few years lapsed (NATO, April, 2009). For instance, the Federal Republic of Germany was accepted as a member on May 6, 1955 and the next member,
Spain, joined on May 30, 1982 (Flintoff, 2009). By contrast, Greece and Turkey joined the Alliance on February 18, 1952, just three years after NATO was formed (Flintoff, 2009). The
most recent members are Croatia and Albania who joined on April 1, 2009 (Flintoff, 2009). At this same time, Georgia and The Ukraine had their membership postponed to be discussed
by the end of this year (de Nesnera, 2009). Another postponement was Macedonia because there is a disagreement between Macedonia leaders and Greece regarding the countrys chosen name (NATO, September,
2009). Since its founding, NATO has had six rounds of enlargement. These occurred in 1952, 1955, 1982, 1999, 2004, and 2009. The first three were during the Cold War; more
opportunities were presented when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 (NATO, April, 2009). The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and the USSR was broken up (NATO, April, 2009). This ended the
East-West division in Europe. When Germany was reunified in 1990, what had been East Germany became part of Germany and thus, part of NATO (NATO, April, 2009). One of the
reasons for the huge jump in membership is the dissolution of the former USSR, which collapsed in 1991 (de Nesnera, 2009). The USSR was separated into numerous individual and separate
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