NATO

US forces stationed in Italy and Germany deployed to the Baltic States and Poland, NATO stood up a Multinational Division headquartered in Romania , all in a deterrence effort to make the 30,000 troops stationed in Europe look like 300,000. The US Government also responded by creating the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI), earmarking…

likes of international institutions such as NATO and the United Nations, and other NGOs through a process called multilateralism. NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was founded in 1949, and its purpose is to create political and militaristic alliances between North American and European countries during and after the Cold War, protecting the security and freedom of all the countries involved with the organization (“What is NATO?”). It was created to maintain the balance…

In both countries, the development of these weapons coincided with an increasing determination for political and military independence from traditional allies; France would ultimately withdraw completely from NATO 's military command structure and expel all NATO forces from its soil, while China and the Soviet Union parted ways ultimately leading to a series of limited border skirmishes. Adding to the political quagmire that was being developed was the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement…

influence such as the United States of America is a daunting task in itself. To further increase the pressure current president, Donald Trump, is faced with the multifaceted challenge of mending and attaining stable relationships in cooperation with both NATO as well as Russia. Fortunately for President Trump, political philosophers of the past such as Machiavelli and Hobbes have previously theorized and determined basic structures and fundamentals that may be able to assist and guide President…

Joseph Lemoine Professor Farrell Intro. to International Politics 10-9-2014 Memorandum: Realism, Constructivism, and Russian Aggression Overview: In recent months, Russia has invaded Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula. There are a variety of reasons as to why Russia took such bold actions in Ukraine, but the situation can best be interpreted through use the use of realism and constructivism. Although each of these theories will lead to different explanations and policy changes, it is…

This game offered the future leaders an effective practical model to tie national elements of power to the given goals (I was part of NATO team) through game facilitator who evaluate our reasoning how we are able to routinely tie the given ends to the available means in untestable ways. For me was interesting dice role in game that in some way broke linear thinking and planning, which…

Cold War Foreign Policy Three presidents had choices on how to deal with communism but Truman and Eisenhower decided to use the containment policy on the other hand Kennedy, he used flexible response. Communism was a big factor in the late 1950’s. Since the U.S. is scared of communism spreading people created ways to stop the spread. The “Containment Policy” was made by George F. Kennan to stop the spread of communism. Kennan did this by giving economic aid to Greece and Turkey. To help…

Canada and its Allies finally celebrated triumph over the loss of Germany in 1945, during the second world war. What Canada did not know the danger from the Nazis will soon be taken over by a threat to the U.S. and the USSR’s cold war. The Cold War happened between the western allies and the Soviet Union after the second world war due to having a very different political system and beliefs. Unfortunately, Canada geographically happened to be just in between the U.S. and the USSR. Thus, Canada…

faces toward the U.S. The Cold War would form to different alliance in Europe NATO and the Warsaw Pact. They were created in the early stages of the cold war. NATO was made first to give help the countries boarding the eastern communist countries. NATO said if one of these countries where attack then the other countries would come in and help get out the communist people. The Warsaw Pact was the response to NATO and protects those countries near the western part of Europe. The Warsaw…

alliance of NATO, the European Economic Community, later known as the European Community, the French 5th Republic, collapse of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then there are countries and their actions to look at, like Yugoslavia, Hungary, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and last but not least Russia. A plethora…