If Georgia does eventually become a full member, support and defense from other NATO nations is part of the package.

NPR: NATO Ministers Meet On Georgia Conflict

Though today's meeting does bring Georgia into NATO, there is a clear idea that Georgia will eventually become a full member.

NPR: NATO Ministers Meet On Georgia Conflict

Or might this new stability just possibly serve as the base for the profound changes needed if Russia is to become a full member of the developed and democratic world, as its size, its culture and its past achievements suggest it should?

ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia

If the military bosses are sincere about wanting their country one day to become a full member of the European Union, they will have to learn how to accept the will of elected civilians, rather than always trying to get things the way they want them.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

And although the United States still refuses to become a full-fledged member of the International Criminal Court, it has begun to play a supporting role.

CNN: Is America the moral leader in the world?

We said we would engage Iran and give them an opportunity to take the right path, a path that would lead to prosperity and opportunity for their people and a peaceful region, and one in which they would allow themselves to become a full-fledged member of the community of nations.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Sarkozy at the White House