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After many internal discussions NATO authorities decided to create a new strategic concept during the anniversary summit in 2009. A group of 12 experts from Member States prepared the ground for NATO strategic changes in a document called "Albright Report". Based on the document the Lisbon Summit (2010) adopted a new strategic concept adapting NATO to the new challenges and threats to Euro-Atlantic security. The concept adopted three main tasks for NATO: collective defense, crisis management and development of the cooperative security with other international actors. New security threats to allied countries were more widely recognized. The implementation of the new strategic concept was hindered by the aggressive tendencies in international activities of Russia, the crisis phenomena in the economy of the Member States and the complex problem of Afghanistan. The new Lisbon concept of NATO facilitated Poland the development of security within the Euro-Atlantic Partnership.

In last 20 years NATO has been changed considerably, the number of members has boosted, the area of NATO members has accrued, the engagement beyond area of NATO members has grown, the list of potential threats has been widen. Many authors try to indicate the directions of NATO development. There are some important indidvidual interests of NATO members. They may be achieved due to being a part of NATO. Many European countries are NATO members, these who are not, they can not be or do not want to be NATO members because of different reasons. The cooperation of NATO and European Union is very important for the future of NATO. Some strategic concepts and decisions can be made due to relations NATO–EU–Russia. The meaning of these relations are growing in accordance with economic, political and military development of China, India and Brazil. The only strong Europe and strong NATO can be the real partners for them. The new strategic concept of NATO is only the beginning of building new relations

The author analyses the North Atlantic Alliance through the prism of community of values as the foundation of the system of collective self-defence. The starting point of the discussion was the construction of a "security community" by the states of the western hemisphere in order to repel the direct existential threat from the USSR. This constructed 'community' proved to be an institution capable of transformation – after the end of the 'Cold War' – in the face of new security threats. The 21st century has confronted the Allies and NATO with new challenges. These challenges come both from counter-system states – strategic rivals – and from within the Alliance itself, from states rejecting common values. The subjects of an in-depth comparative analysis are: internal challenges, examined in the form of case studies; the "hub and spokes system", treated as a possible alternative to the Alliance; and NATO's internal study – a report on challenges and the possibilities of meeting them. The author presents a catalogue of existential internal challenges with which NATO is confronted and the organisation's search for ways to cope with these challenges. He presents an alternative model of bilateral alliances as a way to ensure security of the western hemisphere in case of NATO's inability to survive. The aim of the study is to answer the question within the framework of the disjunctive alternative: will it be possible to transform (by the parties to the Washington Treaty) NATO into a community of values? Or will it be necessary to replace NATO with a network of bilateral agreements, that is, to replace the plurilateral institution with structured bilateral cooperation? The study is based on the conclusions of a legal survey of primary sources and representative literature on the subject. ; The author analyses the North Atlantic Alliance through the prism of community of values as the foundation of the system of collective self-defence. The starting point of the discussion was the construction of a "security community" by the states of the western hemisphere in order to repel the direct existential threat from the USSR. This constructed 'community' proved to be an institution capable of transformation – after the end of the 'Cold War' – in the face of new security threats. The 21st century has confronted the Allies and NATO with new challenges. These challenges come both from counter-system states – strategic rivals – and from within the Alliance itself, from states rejecting common values. The subjects of an in-depth comparative analysis are: internal challenges, examined in the form of case studies; the "hub and spokes system", treated as a possible alternative to the Alliance; and NATO's internal study – a report on challenges and the possibilities of meeting them. The author presents a catalogue of existential internal challenges with which NATO is confronted and the organisation's search for ways to cope with these challenges. He presents an alternative model of bilateral alliances as a way to ensure security of the western hemisphere in case of NATO's inability to survive. The aim of the study is to answer the question within the framework of the disjunctive alternative: will it be possible to transform (by the parties to the Washington Treaty) NATO into a community of values? Or will it be necessary to replace NATO with a network of bilateral agreements, that is, to replace the plurilateral institution with structured bilateral cooperation? The study is based on the conclusions of a legal survey of primary sources and representative literature on the subject.