Author: John Kriendler
- Date: July 2007 -
The issue of Ukraine's integration in NATO is an important one. Looking to the evolution of this issue, the author addresses in this paper the benefits that Ukraine could expect to derive from NATO integration as well as the costs of membership and some misconceptions, usually advanced by critics of Ukraine's NATO aspirations. For completeness, he also highlights some of the key challenges that Ukraine is facing regarding NATO membership. This involves the question of how far NATO will go in enlarging into the former Soviet space and what security arrangements Russia will develop to assure its own security.
