"2014-01-01+01:00"^^ . . . . . "1"^^ . . "RIV/00216224:14230/14:00078371" . . "NATO; enlargement; fears; reality"@en . "[C9B2C31A680B]" . . "9786197105254" . . "7"^^ . . "The process of NATO enlargement received rather strong and exhausting criticism both in the academic and political sphere. However, only very few of the dire predictions about the negative impact of NATO enlargement have come true. No new dividing lines have been drawn in Europe. The new NATO members have always supported the NATO open door policy and have tried to help further NATO candidate states to get ready for the NATO enlargement. The deterioration of the NATO ability to provide collective defence has been caused by the focus on expeditionary operations and declining defence expenditures, not by the NATO enlargement. New NATO members have participated in many out of area operations and have provided a very significant contribution to the NATO effort. Political conflicts within NATO have been caused mainly by disputes between the \u201Cold\u201D NATO members rather than by the qualitatively different character of the newcomers." . "14230" . . . "NATO Enlargement. Fears and Reality" . "K\u0159\u00ED\u017E, Zden\u011Bk" . . "Sofie" . "2367-5659" . "RIV/00216224:14230/14:00078371!RIV15-MSM-14230___" . "31705" . "NATO Enlargement. Fears and Reality"@en . "SEGM" . "S" . . . "SGEM Conference on Political Sciences, Law, Finance, Economics and Tourism" . "NATO Enlargement. Fears and Reality" . . "Albena" . "1"^^ . . "NATO Enlargement. Fears and Reality"@en . "The process of NATO enlargement received rather strong and exhausting criticism both in the academic and political sphere. However, only very few of the dire predictions about the negative impact of NATO enlargement have come true. No new dividing lines have been drawn in Europe. The new NATO members have always supported the NATO open door policy and have tried to help further NATO candidate states to get ready for the NATO enlargement. The deterioration of the NATO ability to provide collective defence has been caused by the focus on expeditionary operations and declining defence expenditures, not by the NATO enlargement. New NATO members have participated in many out of area operations and have provided a very significant contribution to the NATO effort. Political conflicts within NATO have been caused mainly by disputes between the \u201Cold\u201D NATO members rather than by the qualitatively different character of the newcomers."@en .