Intro -- Content -- 1. Introduction -- 2. NATO Strategic Concept Adaptation -- 2.1 NATO Security Tasks -- 2.2 Security Threats Perception -- 2.3 Security Threat Elimination -- 2.4 Importance of the Strategic Concepts Adaptation -- 3. NATO Enlargement -- 3.1 Alternatives to NATO Enlargement -- 3.2 Study on NATO enlargement -- 3.3 The "Big Bang" and further prospects -- 3.4 NATO Enlargement Results -- 4. NATO -- Russia relations -- 4.1 Brief overview of NATO -- Russia relations -- 4.2 Russia and Kosovo crisis -- 4.3 Russia and NATO enlargement
4.4 Other bones of contentionbetween the West and Russia -- 5. NATO Mi litary Operations -- 5.1 NATO peac e support military operations -- concept evolution -- 5.2 NATO 's engagement in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 5.3 NATO engagement in Kosovo -- 5.3.1 Genesis of the Kosovo crisis and evolution of NATO politics -- 5.3.2 Problematical character of the NATO military intervention in Kosovo -- 5.3.3 Further development of the Alliance engagement in Kosovo -- 5.4 Macedonia -- 5.5 NATO and Afghanistan -- 5.6 NATO engagement in resolving the conflict in Libya -- 5.7 NATO and collective defence operations
6. A brief overview of NATO military transformation -- 6.1 General Trends in Western Mi litary -- 6.2 From CJT to NRF -- 6.3 The Lisbon Summit and Further -- 7. Conclusion -- Literature -- Summary -- Index
