NATO as a Promoter of Security Norms under the Challenges of the Modern Pandemic World (2020-2022)

Abstract

  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the most active military-political structure in the modern world. Researchers and experts have long been interested in the causes of NATO's effectiveness as a historically successful alliance․ As a young researcher, I decided to study the activity of NATO under new realities of the pandemic world, particularly understand the nature of NATO activities in a non-standard security environment, highlight and examine all the work done by the structure during this period. The pandemic changed the sense of safety and security in the whole world․. As a young scientist, I set myself the task of studying NATO's operations as the world's number one security structure and understanding what kind of new security norms and realities are emerging in NATO's security culture, NATO's operations; I want scientifically answer the questions of how NATO combines its priority security issues with the global fight against covid-19. The study's main purpose is to analyze the mechanisms of NATO activity during the pandemic, to show what specific work the organization has done, and what mechanisms it has created in the non-standard security environment of the modern world, which later became a security norm and a security culture. I have also set myself the scientific task of understanding how NATO combined its key functions with the work being done for the pandemic․ and Demonstrating the specifics of NATO's crisis management during a pandemic․. To address and analyze these scientific issues; we addressed the following matters in the research․ Throughout the pandemic, NATO has done tremendous work in various directions․. During the time of the pandemic, NATO and Allied military personnel have been supporting civilian efforts - providing military airlift, setting up field hospitals, sharing medical expertise, and helping to develop innovative responses. Since the start of the crisis, NATO's Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre has coordinated requests from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and  NATO and 18 partner countries, garnering more than 130 responses in return. This is helping to save lives. In my work, I researched and wrote about all the old and newly created structures and institutions active under NATO during Covid-19. The next most crucial direction was the cooperation framework created by NATO, which helped fight against the pandemic. All this helped to competently and correctly combine efforts․ I highlighted the joint consolidation during important issues around its axis and studied the scope of NATO's cooperation with other international structures and organizations during the pandemic. As part of a coordinated approach, NATO works closely with other international organizations, including the European Union, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations World Food Programme. Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, the structure has strengthened cooperation with the European Union. Relevance of Topic The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly a significant shock to the international security system. Management of the epidemiology of the disease will have profound long-term economic, cultural, social, political, and security implications. Efforts to mitigate the disease's impact and find the means for its final defeat are crucial and require a global effort. NATO Allies and their partners are working together nonstop to rise to this unprecedented challenge. Within the framework of all types of research on NATO, it is extremely important to study the specifics of the organization's activity during the pandemic, which is an urgent modern scientific problem and requirement. NATO will face a new security environment that will call for new ideas, concepts, security culture, approaches, and response types․ In summarizing all of this, I would like to mention one important sentence that I came to at the end of my research h.NAT's military is called to save people's lives, not only on the battlefield and in wars, but also when there is a need for it in other areas of saving human life.