Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hindu College, Sonepat, India
Online published on 23 December, 2013.
From its inception NATO has been linked to the UN. The Alliance claimed that its objective was to achieve the aims of the UN Charter which had been subverted by the Soviet Union's irresponsible use of its veto power. But the relationship was always uneasy. Once the treaty was accepted, in part because of its claim of conformity with the UN Charter, NATO lost interest in maintaining ties. Not until the Cold War ended and Bosnia became both a UN and NATO problem were steps taken to establish a working relationship. In 1998 there is a tentative optimism about the future. The present work examines the intimate and often contentious relations between the two and describes how this relationship has changed over the course of two generations.
