partnerships

1990s

after the creation of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC), in 1994 the Partnership for Peace was established with former Warsaw Pact members and Soviet republics

post-9/11

after 9/11, NATO bolstered partnerships with the countries of the Gulf Region, creating the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (2006) — pushed by GW Bush. for the first time, it also began to contemplate potential partnerships with like-minded democracies in the Indo-Pacific

2000s-present

partnership agreements were negotiated in the following years with Finland, Sweden, & Ukraine. bilateral cooperation was deepened with Israel. cooperation agreements were also reached with the UN, the African Union, & most notable, the EU

Mediterranean dialogue

1994 with Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Mauritania, & a few other North African states NOT ON FINAL