1.5: Consultation
Consult to Prevent and Manage Crises. Other Information:
Consultations to Prevent or Manage Crises. Given the changing character and growing variety of dangers to the security of
member states, the Allies should make more creative and regular use of the consultations authorized by Article 4. These consultations,
which highlight the Alliance's function as a political community, can be important both for preventing and managing crises
and need not await an imminent Article 5 threat. Indeed, consultations are singularly well-suited to the review of unconventional
dangers and to situations that might require an emergency international response. Article 4 provides an opportunity to share
information, promote a convergence of views, avoid unpleasant surprises, and clear a path for successful action -- whether
that action is of a diplomatic, precautionary, remedial, or coercive nature.
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