Global partnership, NATO-Australia relations
Keywords:
NATO, strategic concept, partnership policy, Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme, Partnership for Peace, Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, Mediterranean Dialogue, Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, global partners
Abstract
NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept identifies cooperative security as one of three essential core tasks to be achieved in part “through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organizations around the globe”. The Alliance adopted a new “more effective and flexible” partnership policy in April 2011, which offers a number of new tools to foster the cooperative security efforts and it permits potential and existing partners an opportunity to shape their own relationships with NATO. Over the past decade, NATO and Australia have developed meaningful, practical cooperation. Australia as one of the global partners is making a valuable and significant contribution to the NATO-led ISAF mission in Afghanistan.
