- NDC Policy Brief 20-19: The role of democracy and human rights adherence in NATO enlargement decisions, by Eyal Rubinson*.
What is the role that democracy and adherence to human
rights play in NATO enlargement decisions?
Democratic conditionality, a strategy of setting clear
benchmarks of liberal-democratic reforms as a prerequisite
for membership, has been a central theme in
NATO history. Adherence to democracy and human
rights was cited in the Washington Treaty of 1949,
and more recently in the 1995 Study on NATO Enlargement,
the 1994 Framework Document of the
“Partnership for Peace” programme, the 1999 Membership
Action Plan (MAP) and other fundamental
texts.
*(back) Eyal Rubinson was a Mediterranean Dialogue Fellow at the NATO
Defense College from April to July 2019.
The views expressed in this NDC Policy Brief are the responsibility of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of the NATO Defense College or NATO.
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