primarily concentrated on European defence against the Warsaw Pact countries.

However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO has lost its principle

protagonist. So it must be asked, can there really be, as the US Secretary of State,

Madeleine Albright said, a "new NATO for a new century". Indeed, she said, at the

Brookings Institution, that since the end of the Cold War "Alliance leaders [have been]

confronted [with] a new set of questions. How would the Alliance hold together, now

that the adversary that had brought it together was gone? If it remained united, what

would it do? How should it change? How might the new NATO relate to the new

Europe? And what role would Russia play?"1. These are all valid questions when

attempting to evaluate the extent to which NATO is a thing of the past. Nato's

traditional role was that of containment of the Warsaw Pact countries and Western

European security. It was Ernst Bevin, the British foreign secretary who came up with

the idea of NATO (which has always principally been a military alliance), who said

that NATO would be the answer to the Communist threat by "organising and

Hyde-Price, Adrian, "European Security beyond the Cold War" Sage Publications

peace keeping put to the test for the first time. In 1995, a NATO led multinational

Kosovo during 1999 prove that NATO has successfully adapted from a military

decade ago, a military presence is still required in Europe, as proved by the events in

designed to advance the internal adaptation of NATO have also been introduced. The

of World War II and the effect of these changes has been unprecedented. NATO has

Capital Times (Madison, WI), (1996): March 26, pp. 7A

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