Significance of diplomatic intelligence in the security sector of NATO member states.

Abstract

The importance of this study is connected with the fact that a number of European states are now expressing the intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in order to obtain all the benefits of such kind of a membership. Undoubtedly, for admission to the Organization, countries need to follow long-term stages of transformation in all spheres of public life. In relation to countries that consider joining NATO, the Organization implements a partnership policy: gets familiarized with NATO standards and provides advice in the process of transferring public sectors to those standards. According to the current world requirements, it is important to pay additional attention to the changes that need to be achieved in the security sector of potential member states. Diplomatic intelligence as an element of functioning of the countries’ security sector, as well as realization of the information function of diplomatic agents, is the crucial aspect which future NATO members should carefully focus attention on. In order to maintain high cooperation with the NATO leading member states, in line with the challenges of the present, potential member states countries should transform the mechanism of the conduct of diplomatic intelligence.