Political Science 3203F/G Lecture 1: Hour 1 Interational Crises, Europe+ Middle East
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Round 2: may 1, 2004: romania, bulgaria, slovenia, estonia, latvia and lithuania all become members of. Round 3: april 2008: croatia is invited to join nato club (they don"t join however until 2009, albania also invited, joins in 2009 while georgia and ukraine are told they will eventually become members. Russia and expansion: russia feels they are being surrounded. *know where kaliningrad is, north ossetia, and random places mentioned in lecture yet not featured on any slide maps. Hungarians attack romania over transylvania, a disputed area in romania, then the entire nato alliance could be involved. This means an attack on turkey implies that. The costs of nato expansion in the twenty-first century: direct financial cost of nato exp. U. s. , would be 2 billion, leaving the rest or some billion (us) to the current 15 members an estimate stemming from a congressional report released by the state.