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Potential NATO Partners — Political and Military Utility for NATO

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NATO: The Power of Partnerships

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First implemented in 1989 as a revision to the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, the US Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) distinction was formed primarily as a means to improve American bilateral relationships through improved defense trade relationships and to encourage and advance cooperative agreements for research and development on conventional weapons. To be clear at the onset, this distinction has nothing to do with NATO, provides no enhanced security guarantee between the US and its identified MNNA, and by some measures barely alters the existing relationship between the US and the MNNA (Center for Defense Information, 2004). In many respects, the injection of ‘NATO’ into this term, as well as the term ‘allies’ (at least in the Article 5 sense as understood in the North Atlantic Treaty), provides a false impression of the bilateral agreement in place.

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Hendrickson, R.C. (2011). Potential NATO Partners — Political and Military Utility for NATO. In: Edström, H., Matlary, J.H., Petersson, M. (eds) NATO: The Power of Partnerships. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297500_8

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