Nature and the Iron Curtain.

NATO did not intervene in the Balkans to overcome Yugoslavia, or destroy it, but above all to avoid violence and to end discrimination. (Shimon Peres, the former Israeli foreign minister, winner of Nobel Prize for peace) NATO’s intervention in the Balkans is the most historic case of the alliance since its establishment. After the Cold War or the "Fall of the Iron Curtain" NATO somehow lost the sense of existing since its founding reason no longer existed. The events of the late twenties in the Balkans, strongly brought back the alliance proving the great need for its existence and defining dimensions and new concepts of security and safety for the alliance in those tangled international relations.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Behind the Iron Curtain: Socio-economic and political factors shaped exotic bird introductions into Europe.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.2104956.1698054 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Navjot Sodhi

Keyword(s):

Iron Curtain ◽

Political Factors

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Nature and the Iron Curtain

10.2307/j.ctvhrd0c1 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Iron Curtain

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Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia

10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0016 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michal Onderco

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Actual Process ◽

Iron Curtain ◽

The European Union ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Civil Military Relations ◽

Military Forces ◽

Joint Procurement ◽

Military Relations ◽

The Cold War

This chapter focuses on defence transformations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary since the end of the cold war. The three lesser powers of Central Europe all eventually joined NATO and the European Union, following the fall of the Iron Curtain. The process they underwent completely transformed their security strategies and military doctrines, but the plans to transform their military forces have developed slowly, and the actual process has been interrupted and incomplete. This chapter addresses the development of civil–military relations, the main milestones in the development of the respective states’ national security policies, and the main changes in the structure of military forces in each of these countries. Finally, the chapter looks at the nascent trends towards military cooperation between the three countries, including military sharing and joint procurement.

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