What Future for NATO?, by Christoph Bertram Can NATO survive the loss of its ennemyf ? Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the Western Alliance has tried to find other justifications for its existence, in particular dealing with some of the new dangers on the European periphery. But as the first such crisis, the Balkan War, has shown, the new dangers, in contrast to the old Soviet threat, do not unite but devide the Alliance. The only enduring purpose for NATO can be that of providing a political structure for European order. But this will require a new institutional arrangement with Russia, the inclusion of democratie states in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as a major effort to keep an increasingly isolationist US engagea on the...