Why are we talking about Partenership for Peace?

Well,first of all,we have to know that we are still feeling effects of the century of contradictions, of instabilities and of the great performances. Our century is named like this,because it was marked by two great wars that made human and material losses, and after that, the mankind was divided in two different worlds. This situation generated an atmosphere of cold war for half a century. the

What is the role of NATO,according to this Partenership for Peace? Only NATO has the military forces, the integrated command, the broad legitimacy and the habits of cooperation that are essential to respond to new security challenges. In 1989, NATO was facing new problems. After five years it was born this new form of cooperation between former adversaries - the Warsaw Treaty's members and the NATO countries - which is the Partnership for Peace.

What actually does the Partenership for Peace involves? The Partnership for Peace program was a big step for uniting the states of Europe and for creating a new security order. The fundamental value, which constituted the base of this partnership, was democracy, and its big objective was peace. This is why, it can be concluded that the Partnership for Peace represents the result of two fundamental values of the mankind: peace and democracy. The purpose of the Partnership for Peace is to increase stability, diminish threats to peace and build strengthened security relationships between individual Partner countries and NATO, as well as among Partner countries.

The main objectives of the Partenership for Peace programme: to increase the stability; to build modern, efficient and resposible armed forces; to diminish the threats against peace; to facilitate transparency in national defence planning and budgeting processes; to ensure democratic control of defence forces; to maintain the capability and readiness to contribute to operations under the authority of the United Nations and/or the responsibility of the OSCE; to develop cooperative military relations with NATO, for the purpose of joint planning, training and exercises, in order to strengthen the ability of PfP participants to undertake missions in the field of peacekeeping, search and rescue, humanitarian operations, and others as may subsequently be agreed; to develop, over the longer term, forces that are better able to operate with those of the members of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Areas of cooperation PfP cooperation covers a wide spectrum of possibilities, both in the military field and in the broader defence-related but not strictly military area: air defence related matters; airspace management/control; consultation, command and control, including communications and information systems, navigation and identification systems, interoperability aspects, procedures and terminology; civil emergency planning; crisis management; democratic control of forces and defence structures; defence planning, budgeting and resource management; planning, organisation and management of national defence procurement programmes and international cooperation in the armaments field; defence policy and strategy; planning, organisation and management of national defence research and technology; military geography.

Conclusions According to what we have just presented,we can admit that beyond the merit to bring the states together for cooperation, PfP is achieving something else: it is helping former adversaries to become stable and mature democracies, disposing of military structures placed under a strong democratic control. This partnership opens the door to cooperation with all NATO's former adversaries, including Russia, Ukraine and the other newly independent states, based on the belief that freedom's boundaries must now be defined by new behavior, not old history. The adoption of this formula of cooperation within PfP with- former enemies is a transitory solution, good for the moment and possible to be consolidated in the future.