The Process of Transforming Foreign and Security Policies

Abstract

Abstract Within the context of analyzing the changes that have occurred as a result of the enlargement of NATO and the expansion of the goals of the European Union, this article argues that the interdependence of internal and external policymaking has operated in complex ways; for example, all the new member states increased their sense of security but were confronted with the necessity of defining their policies toward the world outside the EU and the North Atlantic alliance, not just toward neighboring countries. The most important new element was to analyze the new situation in their own countries, which involved looking at both Euro-Atlantic structures from a different perspective. The accession of the new states, in turn, accelerated the internal transformation of both international organizations.