... tenses in the Treaty Globalization, Critical Discourse Analysis, North Atlantic Treaty and the analysis 2.1 Globalization What is “globalization - the word which has been repeatedly used nowadays? ... (Wodak) [9], in the light of a CDA 2.3 Critical Discourse Analysis of North Atlantic Treaty The discourse of the North Atlantic Treaty is, in fact, a formal agreement among the 12 member signatories ... modal auxiliaries in the Treaty, mainly “shall” and “will” are used This is understandable because the Treaty also operates as a law Radolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum in A University Grammar...