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<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+4">Finding the Right Balance</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+2">Rear Admiral Denny Wisely,
Director for Operations</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><I><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">Defense Nuclear Agency</FONT></FONT></I></CENTER>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">In recent NATO Workshops,
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick<SUP> </SUP>boldly discussed expanding NATO
eastward; she also described NATO's democratizing role, pointing out that
institutions are multifunctional and that, sometimes, latent functions are
as important as the intended manifest functions. From my own experience in
the Navy and in the 6th Fleet in particular, I believe that, while we were
practicing NATO exercises to intimidate the former Soviet Union, we were
also team-building and preventing the development of conflicts among our
NATO allies. According to Ambassador Kirkpatrick, this concept applies to
NATO as a strong argument for including the new democracies. The need for
their inclusion is also reciprocal, because we depend on each other.</FONT></FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">The one guarantee against
aggression is the spread of democracy since democracies do not go to war
with one another. In Ambassador Kirkpatrick's words, "We should make
every effort to strengthen and preserve the new democracies in Eastern and
Central Europe, including Russia." Her vision was that we should
offer a "stepping-stone partnership" for countries that
demonstrate democracy and want collective security, and that this
stepping-stone arrangement would provide an interim membership with some
vague security guarantees. That was a year ago. Since then, we have made
tremendous strides: twenty countries have now agreed to proceed along the
path of Partnership for Peace, and Russia has agreed to participate as
well.</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">At a recent round-table
conference in Prague, Ambassador Gyarmati of Hungary summed up some of the
current feeling in the European Community when he said, "Europe will
always have borders. Russia will always be different. Russia will be a
destabilizing factor for the next decade." He then asked, "Would
Russia's joining NATO add to security?" His solution was to propose a
limited extension of NATO to those countries that can contribute something
to the Alliance. In the chapters that follow, the members of our
panel--from Switzerland, Georgia, the U.S., and Russia--will discuss their
views on building this Partnership for Peace, a process in which
partnership is, in fact, the key word.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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