NATO's Future: Will NATO Disintegrate or Survive: Deep Analysis

Abstract

This abstract paper discusses the future of NATO and seeks to answer the question of whether the alliance will disintegrate or survive by looking at various factors. NATO has been held together through organizational inactivity and shifting the unifying threat to a variety of lesser threats. Nevertheless, the weakness of the new threat will be insufficient to maintain the Alliance. This argument is supported by three different period analyses of NATO. The first is an analysis of NATO in the Cold War and an overview of its creation as an answer to the threat of the Soviet Union. The second delved into the Alliance after the Cold War and the reasons for NATO’s continuation. The third section outlines NATO’s current missions, issues, and tensions within the Alliance. The paper concludes that NATO will fall apart in the future, with a slow but sure breakdown of the military structures of the Alliance. It will, however, remain a political entity due to the strength of the security community created between the allies.