The beginnings of NATO's crisis response operations date back in the early 1990s to the Balkans. The Alliance's activities in this area have since changed significantly and adapted to the new security environment. Operation Active Endeavour, was based on the concept of collective defense to the Alliance's response to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. NATO has since considered terrorism a major threat and Mediterranean a vast source of potential instabilities and conflicts. In 2016, the operation was succeeded by Operation Sea Guardian, which continued and upgraded tasks of Active Endeavor. Based on the analysis of similar international mediation by the experts of the field, I set specific performance indicators and evaluate success of the operations. Assessing the effectiveness of such international mediation is a challenging area of study, since operations need to be evaluated in a comprehensive way from different perspectives. The operations Active Endeavour and Sea Guardian have proven successful in several areas of concern, given their limitations. The comparison of operations confirmed the importance of efforts to develop operations and upgrade them over time. I concluded that the operations pursued the objectives of the Nato Maritime Strategy and successfully provided deterrent effects, security cooperation and crisis management in the Mediterranean.
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