Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1757:
Beyond Security, Towards Institution Building – The Case of NATO-Macedonia Relations
Rainer Schweickert, Inna Melnykovska and Hanno Heitmann
Abstract: The effectiveness of NATO conditionality for institutional
reforms is highly controversial. Some papers argue that any effect this
conditionality might have had may be due to endogeneity effects, i.e. NATO
may have picked the winners. We argue that this is not the case. First,
NATO-Mazedonia relations provide a case in point. Macedonia was granted
entry into the Membership Action Plan (MAP) in 1999 due to country’s
strategic importance. Only after the Ohrid agreement, effective
conditionality set in and marked a switch in NATO strategy from security
only towards institution building. Second, this is supported by econometric
evidence based on panel data. An event study reveals that entry into NATO’s
accession process was mainly driven by neighbourhood and good relations
with the West. We conclude that empirical evidence clearly supports a
stronger role of NATO’s political agenda, i.e., low entry barriers but
strict accession conditionality
Keywords: International Organization, European Integration, Institutional Development, Accession Incentives, Regional Security; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F52,; F53,; F59; (follow links to similar papers)
23 pages, February 2012
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