The popular perception of the role of NATO was famously defined by NATO's first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, as … "keeping the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down". NATO's role is still essentially to keep its members safe …. However, behind this alluringly simple description of NATO, lie complex "self", "we" and "other" definitions and perceptions …

The effectiveness of NATO conditionality for institutional reforms is highly controversial. Some papers argue that any … effect this conditionality might have had may be due to endogeneity effects, i.e. NATO may have picked the winners. We argue … that this is not the case. First, NATO-Mazedonia relations provide a case in point. Macedonia was granted entry into the …

NATO agreed its new Strategic Concept at the Lisbon Summit in November 2010. The new Strategic Concept is analyzed in a … DIIS Report edited by Jens Ringsmose and Sten Rynning. The report entitled NATO's New Strategic Concept: A Comprehensive … Assessment contains 15 individual chapters all on different aspects of NATO's new Strategic Concept making the publication the …