| Sumario: | The redefinition of relations of force within the international system that has resulted from theexhaustion of bi-polar arrangements brings significant implications for the Atlantic Alliance. Basedon a model of collective defense prioritizing geo-strategic variables, the Alliance was not able to dealwith security imperatives within the new systemic configuration. In 1991, when this incompatibilitywas recognized, members of the Alliance moved to redefine their strategic plan and to identify thepossible political, economic and social instabilities emerging primarily within Eastern Europe as thegreatest threat. In 1999, through the practices of intervention and greater U.S. committment that hadbegun in the middle of that decade, NATO went on to hone its new criteria by harmonizing use offorce and detection of threats to security within its normative precepts.
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