The end of military neutrality on the Scandinavian peninsula is of major world political and historical significance in its own regard, but is even more important by what it illustrates. The NATO integration of Finland and Sweden is a final detail in a grand landscape whose composite view is of every European nation – large and small, west and east, continental and insular – incorporated into and subordinated to a globally expanding military bloc controlled by a power in another hemisphere. A project exceeding by orders of magnitude the efforts of Napoleon and Hitler to achieve a comparable objective in the last two centuries.
Declassified documents with comments from George Washington university 12 Dec, 2017: Western leaders gave multiple assurances against NATO expansion to Gorbachev in 1990-1991 according to declassified American, Russian, British, Germans documents.
This posting is the first of two on the subject. The second part will cover the Yeltsin discussions with Western leaders about NATO.
May 16, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko, RIR The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is in for major changes, judging by the outcomes of the meeting of SCO foreign ministers in China’s capital ahead of the SCO summit scheduled to be held in Beijing on June 6-7.
Mary Einbinder, Dec 2011: "In A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, a geographer and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at CUNY, portrays the process of globalization through an economic perspective. Harvey describes the gradual shift throughout the global market towards economic and social policies that progressively gave an increased liberality and centrality to markets, market processes, and to the interests of capital. Harvey sets his analysis in the context of the rise of neoliberalism.
9.3..2012 Nemokrati: "Den svenska regeringen samarbetar direkt med Saudiarabiens regering och försvarsministerium MODA. Detta handlar... om en EU-anpassad utrikespolitik, som integrerar EU:s och NATO:s utvidgning och som Carl Bildt och Moderaterna ända sedan överenskommelsen om den fattades tillsammans med övriga europeiska högerpartier 1982 i EDU velat hålla hemlig för svenska befolkningen, media och väljarna. (Allt om den kan man läsa i Sven Ove Hanssons bok Till höger om neutraliteten. Bakom fasaden hos näringslivet och moderaterna. 1985. Stockholm: Tiden.) Carl Bildts farliga utrikespolitik som riskerar både världsfreden och Sveriges säkerhet har också inbegripit att initiera det “östliga partnerskapet”, ett “svenskt-polskt initiativ“, vilket fullbordar USA:s robotsköld runt det eurasiska fastlandet och fått Putin att gå i taket ...
Sami Ramadani, senior lecturer in sociology at London Metropolitan University and a political refugee from Saddam's regime: "A shift in Turkey's policy is very significant for the region. Turkey over the last few years built friendly relations with Iran, with Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, and with the Syrian regime it developed very close links. They decided—Turkey decided to agree to installing the anti-ballistic missile umbrella in Turkey. Before that, they objected to such installation. This started souring relations with Iran. When it came to the demonstrations inside Syria, gradually Turkey took the side of those who want to militarize the conflict."
Paul Rogers, 9 September 2010 The annual report for 2010 of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a leading establishment think-tank, raises the prospect of a shift in western policy in Afghanistan.
by Karel Koster, of the SP Research Bureau. Quotes Dutch FM Maxime Verhagen: “NATO policy has as one of its principles that the alliance will maintain nuclear capacity in Europe at the minimum level necessary for the preservation of peace and stability. A
text of the declaration, signed by Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Ban Ki Moon, plus statement 3.12. by TFF board. "The United Nations considers it secret and, thus, hasn't published it on its homepage; NATO is pleased to give you a copy upon request "