NATO after the End of the Cold War

This paper aims to describe and analyse the main tendencies in the NATO transformation after the end of the Cold war and proceeds as follows. The second chapter pay attention to the changes in the NATO strategic thinking. The third chapter focus on the NATO enlargement followed by the fourth chapter dealing with the NATO-Russian relations. The fifth chapter is devoted to the NATO expeditionary operations and the sixth provides a survey of the NATO military adaptation. The last chapter summarizes the main outcomes of the NATO adaptation after the end of the Cold War. As far as methodology is concerned, procedures typical of history science are used in this paper.