EU-NATO relations through the lens of strategic documents

The main goal of this study is to contribute to the academic debate
concerning EU-NATO relations and to consider the main sources of difficulties in their
relationship. In particular, this analysis takes into account the possible role of the strategic
documents of both organisations in future cooperation. Consequently, the first part of the
article concentrates on dilemmas related to EU-NATO relations referred to in the existing
literature. The second part contains an analysis of the development of these relations,
while the third describes the presumptive impact of the NATO Strategic Concept and the
Global Strategy for the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy on cooperation between the two
organisations. The conclusion underlines that the process of implementing the strategic
documents should have positive effects on EU-NATO relations. However, the question
arises whether and how this process is continued.