NATO after 9/11 : an alliance in continuing decline / Richard E. Rupp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rupp, Richard E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--History--21st century.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

Despite fifteen years of concerted effort to remake NATO, the much heralded alliance is in decline. The states that established NATO in 1949 confronted a common threat to their survival. The Alliance has endeavored to identify a new raison d' ê tre since 1991, but no unifying set of priorities has surfaced. Though dangers to Western security have emerged--the rise of Al Qaeda arguably the most significant--these threats have not unified NATO. In the absence of a menace to their vital interests, and with fundamental policy differences dividing North America and Europe, NATO is succumbing to the pressure of the times.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-274) and index.

ISBN:

1403971889

OCLC:

62342825

Publisher Number:

9781403971883