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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is by far the largest and most powerful alliance on the globe, with all (currently) 31 member states having a total military budget that is larger than the rest of the world combined. What makes NATO such an effective alliance is in part the wording of its’ core provision, Article 5, which states that “(...) an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all (...)”. Because of the military power of the alliance, Article 5 is the most powerful deterrence tool NATO members have at their disposal.

However, it is a lesser known fact that the protection provided by NATO’s Article 5 has geographic limits. These limits are found in the NATOtreaty’s Article 6, which specifies that to invoke Article 5, an armed attack has to happen in the socalled “North Atlantic Area”. The treaty defines this area as any territory of member states in North America and Europe, the entirety of Turkey, as well as all islands that are located North of the “Tropic of Cancer”. This has enormous security implications for all those NATOmembers, who are in possession of territories outside these geographic limits, which includes the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States.

In this video, we are taking a closer look at these geographic limits, why they were introduced and how they influence the geopolitical situation within NATO.
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Music:

"Laid Back Guitars" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Timestamps:

0:00​ Introduction
1:24 Sponsorship
2:21 Creation of NATOtreaty
3:16 Unprotected NATO territories
7:51 Politics behind invoking Article 5
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Sources:

Uwe Hartmann (2017) NATO'S Adaptation: Challenges and Opportunities.

Timothy Andrews Sayle (2019) Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order.

Massimo de Leonardis (2022) NATO in the PostCold War Era: Continuity and Transformation.

For more information about other sources I used, feel free to email me.
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