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THE GLOBALIZATION
OF NATO

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

ISBN:  978-0-9852710-2-2  $24.95  2012

    SYNOPSIS

    The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions,
    occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and
    orders of the day. One organization – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is
    repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of
    these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. Its
    existence was justified by Washington and Western Bloc politicians as a guarantor
    against any Soviet and Eastern Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but all along the
    Alliance served to cement Washington’s influence in Europe and continue what was
    actually the America’s post-World War II occupation of the European continent. In
    1991 the raison d’être of the Soviet threat ended with the collapse of the USSR and
    the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless NATO remains and continues to alarmingly
    expand eastward, antagonizing Russia and its ex-Soviet allies. China and Iran are
    also increasingly monitoring NATO’s moves as it comes into more frequent contact
    with them.
                Yugoslavia was a turning point for the Atlantic Alliance and its mandate. The
    organization moved from the guise of a defensive posture into an offensive pose
    under the pretexts of humanitarianism. Starting from Yugoslavia, NATO began its
    journey towards becoming a global military force. From its wars in the Balkans, it
    began to broaden its international area of operations outside of the Euro-Atlantic zone
    into the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and the
    Indian Ocean. It has virtually turned the Mediterranean Sea into a NATO lake with
    the NATO Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, while it
    seeks to do the same to the Black Sea and gain a strategic foothold in the Caspian
    Sea region. The Gulf Security Initiative between NATO and the Gulf Cooperation
    Council seeks to also dominate the Persian Gulf and to hem in Iran. Israel has
    become a de facto member of the military organization. At the same time, NATO
    vessels sail the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. These warships are deployed off
    the coasts of Somalia, Djibouti, and Yemen as part of NATO’s objectives to create
    a naval cordon of the seas controlling important strategic waterways and maritime
    transit routes.
               The Atlantic Alliance’s ultimate aim is to fix and fasten the American Empire.
    NATO has clearly played an important role in complementing the US strategy for
    dominating Eurasia. This includes the encirclement of Russia, China, Iran, and their
    allies with a military ring subservient to Washington. The global missile shield project,
    the militarization of Japan, the insurgencies in Libya and Syria, the threats against
    Iran, and the formation of a NATO-like military alliance in the Asia-Pacific region are
    components of this colossal geopolitical project. NATO’s globalization, however, is
    bringing together a new series of Eurasian counter-alliances with global linkages
    that stretch as far as Latin America. The Collective Security Treaty Organization
    (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have been formed by
    Russia, China, and their allies as shields against the US and NATO and as a means
    to challenge them. As the globalization of NATO unfolds the risks of nuclear war
    become more and more serious with the Atlantic Alliance headed towards a collision
    course with Russia, China, and Iran that could ignite World War III.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Acknowledgements
    Preface                        From Yugoslavia to Libya: A Personal Memoire About NATO

    Part I
    Pre-9/11: The Years Before 2001

    CHAPTER 1                An Overview of the Apotheosis of NATO

    CHAPTER 2                Children of the Cold War: NATO and the Warsaw Pact
    CHAPTER 3                EU and NATO Expansion and the Partnership for Peace
    CHAPTER 4                A New Mission: Yugoslavia and the Reinvention of NATO

    Part II
    Post-9/11: The Years After 2001

    CHAPTER 5                NATO in Afghanistan
    CHAPTER 6                The Mediterranean Dialogue
    CHAPTER 7                NATO in the Persian Gulf: Gulf Security Initiative
    CHAPTER 8                Claiming the Post-Soviet Space
    CHAPTER 9                NATO and the High Seas: Control of Strategic Waterways
    CHAPTER 10              The Global Missile Shield Project
    CHAPTER 11              The Militarization of Japan and the Asia-Pacific
    CHAPTER 12               NATO and Africa

    Part III
    The System of Alliances and the Threats of a Global Conflict

    CHAPTER 13               The Drive into Eurasia: Encircling Russia, China, and Iran
    CHAPTER 14               NATO’s Sister Alliances
    CHAPTER 15               The Eurasian Counter-Alliances
    CHAPTER 16               NATO and Libya: An Old Imperial Project
    CHAPTER 17               NATO and the Levant: Lebanon and Syria
    CHAPTER 18               America as Rome and NATO as the Peninsular Allies
    CHAPTER 19               Global Militarization: At the Doors of World War III?

    Part IV: Appendices
    Important NATO Documents

    Annex A                The North Atlantic Treaty
    Annex B                Accession of Greece and Turkey
    Annex C                Accession of West Germany
    Annex D                Accession of Spain
    Annex E                London Declaration for the Transforming of NATO
    Annex F                Partnership for Peace
    Annex G                First Wave of Enlargement in Eastern Europe
    Annex H                Crisis Management: Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia
    Annex I                  Accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland
    Annex J                 War for Kosovo against The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
    Annex K                Afghanistan: The New Mandate against Terrorism
    Annex L                Accession of Baltic States, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and
    Slovenia
    Annex M                Istanbul Summit Communiqué: Start of Istanbul Cooperation
    Initiative
    Annex N                 Accession of Albania and Croatia
    Annex O                 Intervention in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

    Part V: Appendices
    Important Warsaw Pact/CSTO/SCO Documents

    Annex P                The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance
    Annex Q                 Collective Security Treaty Organization Charter
    Annex R                Declaration on the Establishment of the SCO
    Annex S                SCO Conventions on Combating Terrorism, Separatism, and
    Extremism
    Annex T                Charter of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
    Annex U                Regulations on Observer Status at the SCO

    Tables

    Table 1.1                NATO During the Cold War
    Table 1.2                New Members of NATO, After the Cold War
    Table 2.1                Warsaw Pact Member States
    Table 3.1                European Neighborhood Policy Program
    Table 3.2                Participants in Partnership for Peace that Entered NATO
    Table 3.3                Current Participants in Partnership for Peace
    Table 3.3                Progressive Steps Towards NATO Membership?
    Table 4.1                Albania and the Former Yugoslavia
    Table 4.2                Euro-Atlantic Integration of Albania and the Former Yugoslavia
    Table 6.1                Mediterranean Dialogue Members
    Table 7.1                ICI Members and their NATO Participation
    Table 13.1              NATO and its Global Alliance Network
    Table 14.1              Members of the Other Military Alliances formed by the United
    States
    Table 15.1              Collective Treaty Security Organization Member States
    Table 15.2              Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States
    Table 15.3              Diversity of the Eurasian Alliances
    Table 19.1              The Eurasian Entente and its Global Alliance Network

    Maps

    Map I                History of NATO Enlargement
    Map II               Germany: Zones of Occupation, 1946
    Map III               NATO and the Warsaw Pact, 1955        
    Map IV              EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries
    Map V               NATO and Partnership in 2004
    Map VI              Former Yugoslavia
    Map VII             NATO in Bosnia
    Map VIII            NATO in Kosovo
    Map IX              NATO in Afghanistan
    Map X               NATO in 2004
    Map XI              Southeast Mediterranean
    Map XII             The Situation Around the Strait of Hormuz
    MAP XIII            Baltic States
    Map XIV            The Caucasus and Central Asia
    Map XV             The Commonwealth of Independent States
    Map XVI            The String of Pearls: Chinese Naval Bases in the Indian Ocean
    Map XVII            The Missile Shield Project
    Map XVIII           Russia’s View of the European Missile Shield
    Map XIX             NATO and CSTO
    Map XX              Shanghai Cooperation Organization
    Map XXI             Libya
    Map XXII            NATO Operations in 2006
    Map XXIII           Lebanon
    Map XXIV          Syrian Arab Republic
    Map XXV           NATO Operations and Missions in 2009
    Map XXVI          Middle East
    Map XXVII         The Bolivarian Bloc
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    REVIEWS

    This is a book really necessary to understanding the role of NATO within the frame of
    long-term US strategy. The Globalization of NATO by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya not
    only provides an articulate analysis on the Atlantic Alliance: it is the best modern text
    devoted to the hegemonic alliance. With this book Nazemroaya reconfirms his ability
    as a brilliant geopolitical analyst.
    -Tiberio Graziani, President of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Geopolitics and
    Auxiliary Sciences/L’Istituto di Alti Studi in Geopolitica e Scienze Ausiliarie (IsAG),
    Rome, Italy.

    Nazemroaya is an unbelievable prolific writer. What has often amazed many is his
    almost nonstop writing on extremely important issues for the contemporary world and
    his analysis about the globalization of NATO. What amazes many of us in other parts of
    the world are his seemingly limitless depth, breadth and the thoroughness of his
    knowledge that has been repeatedly appearing in his work. We are deeply indebted to
    Nazemroaya’s humble, tireless and invaluable contributions through his fearless,
    insightful and powerful writings.
    -Kiyul Chung, Editor-in Chief of The 4th Media and Visiting Professor at the School of
    Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of
    China.

    The Journalists’ Press Club in Mexico is grateful and privileged to know a man who
    respects the written word and used it in an ethical way without another interest other
    than showing the reality about the other side of power in the world. Mahdi Darius
    Nazemroaya gives voice to the “voiceless.” He can see the other side of the moon, the
    side without lights.
    -Celeste Sáenz de Miera, Mexican Broadcaster and Secretary-General of the
    Mexican Press Club, the Federal District of Mexico City, Mexico

    With his very well documented analysis, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya has conducted a
    remarkable decryption of the strategies implemented by NATO – in the interests of the
    United States, the European Union and Israel – to expand its military grip on the world,
    ensure its control over energy resources and transit routes, and encircling the
    countries likely to be a barrier or a threat to its goals, whether it be Iran, Russia or
    China.
    Nazemroaya’s work is essential reading for those that want to understand what is
    being played out right now on the map in all the world’s trouble spots; Libya and Africa;
    Syria and the Middle East; Eurasia and the Persian Gulf.
    -Silvia Cattori, Swiss political analyst and journalist, Geneva, Switzerland
Awarded the MEXICAN PRESS  CLUB's Award
for International Investigative Journalism, Dec. 8, 2011.  
ABOVE:  With fellow award-winner STEPHEN LENDMAN  at Awards Ceremony, which was
broadcast live by television and readio throughout Latin America.


    AUTHOR

    Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a sociologist, award-winning author and
    noted geopolitical analyst. He is a research associate at the Centre for
    Research on Globalization in Montreal, Quebec and specializes on the
    Middle East-North Africa region and Central Asia.

    His texts have been translated into more than twenty languages including
    French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese
    and Chinese. His writings have been printed internationally in
    publications such as Memoria, Al-Arab, Current Concerns/Horizons et
    débats, Eurasia, Tehran Times, The North Africa Times, Amman Times,
    and Eurasia Critic. He has been extensively quoted, interviewed, and
    cited in journals, reports, studies, books, magazines, and newspapers.
    International media featuring him include Inter Press Service, La
    Jornada, Al Jazeera, Press TV, teleSUR, Life Week Magazine, Ajans
    Habertürk, IRIB, Russia Today, and El Khabar. He is also a frequent guest
    on shows on Pacifica KPFK and a contributor to Global Research.
    As recently as 2011, his text on Libya were being archived by NATO’s
    Multimedia Library under the “NATO and Libya - Special Focus” annals,
    which is a collection of articles by leading experts with their analysis on
    the war in Libya.

    He also went to Libya where he was reporting during the NATO
    bombings as the special correspondent of Flashpoints, an investigative
    program syndicated on numerous stations and broadcast from Berkley,
    California. While in Libya, he was with the international press corps when
    they were trapped in the Rixos Al Nasr Hotel during the fall of Tripoli to
    NATO and the rebels.

    In 2011 he received the Mexican Press Club's Investigatory Journalism
    Award.