Horst Teltschik, security adviser to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl

Описание: Should Russia join NATO? Sixty years ago, the trans-Atlantic military alliance was created to protect Western Europe and the United States from Soviet aggression. Now a leading expert on European security says the West should strengthen ties with the Soviet Union's successor, including membership in the 26-member alliance.

"Why not take Russia, in the long run, into NATO?" asks Horst Teltschik, former national security advisor to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1982 to 1990 and international consultant.