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Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic after its Accession to the NATO and European Union
By Elemír Necej
Abstract
Three years after approval of the Security Strategy Slovakia has joined NATO and the EU and therefore a need of new strategy is under discussion among security community. The Slovak Foreign Policy Association and the Institute for Security and Defence Studies MOD has prepared several workshops and issued enough theoretical materials for next possible discussion. All effort has been finalised by preparation of starting points (recommendations) about new security strategy issued in a paper Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic after its Accession to NATO and the European Union.
Of course, the discussion within the security community was much more wider. It included a "lesson learned" from 1993 to 2001, when current security strategy was approved. The incompatibility of previous security documents (Defence Doctrine 1994 and Basic Objectives and Principles of National Security 1996) with new challenges became evident after the Washington summit 1999. Because Slovakia started strong attempt to meet NATO admission criteria, MOD was a first ministry that felt a necessity of new strategic document which would define responses to new security challenges and risks. Despite that a preparation of main strategic documents proceeded from 1998 to 2001 which was a long period. Beside that next lesson learned from that time is that realisation of the Security Strategy has been slow especially by preparation of new security system in Slovakia. Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic should be a complex document oriented on the future in order to be stable without need to be reassessed each year.