American Missile Defense Project and its Impacts on International Security

USA’s decision to implement missile defense system in Eastern Europe has given rise to a wide debate in an international scene. The American authorities tried all along to convince their European allies to accept the project. Nevertheless, there are many serious disagreements particularly on the part of Russia, China, and even some of European partners of Washington. This paper assumes that implementing missile defense project has wide impacts on international security equations and the world strategic stability will really be under threat of the project.Therefore, it can be predicted that the debate over this project will be continued in the future.