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NATO was created by 12 countries from Europe and North America on 4 April 1949. Since then, 20 more countries have joined NATO through 10 rounds of enlargement (in 1952, 1955, 1982, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024). Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty sets out how countries can join the Alliance.
When the implementation of political decisions has military implications, the key actors involved are: the Military Committee, composed of the Chiefs of Defence of NATO member countries; the International Military Staff, the Military Committee’s executive body; and the military command structure, composed of Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation.
NATO has 32 members, but it also maintains relations with more than 40 non-member countries and international organisations, called NATO partners. This partnership network strengthens security outside NATO territory, which makes NATO itself safer. The Alliance pursues dialogue and practical cooperation with partners on a wide range of political and security-related issues, including global ...
Partner countries are represented by Heads of Diplomatic Missions or Liaison Offices located at NATO Headquarters. The Head and staff of the Missions attend NATO committee meetings in cooperation formats and represent their countries at meetings of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, NATO-Ukraine Council or NATO-Georgia Commission.
Provides information about the heads of state of NATO member countries.
Encyclopedia of NATO Topics ; Collective defence and Article 5 ; Deterrence and defence; De-bunking Russian disinformation on NATO; NATO-Ukraine relations; Operations and missions; Exercises ; Cyber defence; Environment, climate change and security; Women, Peace and Security
A wide range of activities, tools and programmes. Activities on offer under the PfP programme touch on virtually every field of NATO activity, including defence-related work, defence reform, defence policy and planning, civil-military relations, education and training, military-to-military cooperation and exercises, civil emergency response, and cooperation on science and environmental issues.
The security of Ukraine is of great importance to NATO and its member states. The Alliance fully supports Ukraine’s inherent right to self-defence, and its right to choose its own security arrangements. Ukraine’s future is in NATO. Relations between NATO and Ukraine date back to the early 1990s and have since developed into one of the most substantial of NATO’s partnerships. Since 2014 ...
NATO has a number of “partners across the globe” or “global partners”, which the Alliance cooperates with on an individual basis. NATO’s global partners include Afghanistan¹, Australia, Colombia, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand and Pakistan. NATO’s engagement with global partners is taking on increasing importance in a complex security environment, where ...
NATO member countries. News Chair of the NATO Military Committee at Leangkollen Security Conference: “by preparing we ramp up our resilience and our deterrence” 06 Feb. 2024; Chair of the NATO Military Committee visits Czechia 23 Nov. 2023; NATO Deputy Secretary General hails Bulgaria’s contributions to stability in the Black Sea 10 Nov. 2023