NATO and the Quest for Post-Cold War Security

by Clay Clemens (Editor)

Overview

This volume presents often sharply contrasting views on the future of NATO. Its contributors, mainly security specialists, cover structural reform of NATO and its relationship with the European Union; evidence or arguments in support of the Alliance taking on new tasks like peacekeeping and enlarging eastward to include countries of the former Soviet bloc; and a variety of arguments against enlargement, ranging from concerns about Russia's reaction to questions about whether the US should remain involved in Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349260027
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 1997
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword; Baroness Thatcher - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - PART 1: RETHINKING WESTERN SECURITY STRUCTURES - NATO at Sixty: Quests for Western Security in a Changed Europe; S.Serfaty - NATO and the Evolution of a European Security Identity; G.A.Mattox - The Alliance and New European Security Challenges; S.F.Szabo - PART 2: CONSIDERING NEW RESPONSIBILITIES: THE CASE FOR ENLARGEMENT - NATO's Double Enlargement: New Tasks, New Members; R.D.Asmus - East Central Europe: Problems, Prospects and Policy Dilemmas; F.S.Larrabee - Official Perspectives from Eastern Europe - PART 3: QUESTIONING BROADER COMMITMENTS: THE CASE FOR CAUTION - Reviving the West; C.A.Kupchan - Russian Perspectives on the Expansion of NATO; S.Eisenhower - Is NATO Still Relevant?; W.G.Hyland - Wishful Thinking and Strategic Evasions; T.G.Carpenter - PART 4: ASSESSING FUTURE PROSPECTS - Conclusion: Political Options and Obstacles; C.Clemens - Index

Editorial Reviews

'...a useful book which provides a full range of arguments for and against NATO's re-structuring in order to become the quintessential Transatlantic security institution after the East-West conflict.' - Wilfried von Bredow, Journal of Strategic Studies

From the Publisher

Margaret Thatcher offers a foreword to a collection of views by mostly US scholars of defense and international relations on the future of the diplomatic bridge with no river to cross. Among the issues they discuss are the nature of European security, whether NATO can expand into eastern Europe without jeopardizing Russian democracy, and whether and under what circumstances it should take on new global missions such as peacekeeping. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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