NATO's post-cold war trajectory : decline or regeneration / Mark Webber, James Sperling and Martin A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webber, Mark.

Contributor:

Sperling, James.

Smith, Martin A., 1965-

Series:

Security challenges series.

Security challenges series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Post-communism--Europe.

Post-communism.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiv, 280 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

NATO is the perennial survivor. Crises come and go, yet still it persists. Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power. From the collapse of the Soviet Union through wars in the Balkans, and interventions in Afghanistan and Libya, the Alliance has adapted and managed to attend to new roles and purposes. What explains NATO's longevity and what can we infer from its recent past in assessing its possible future? And what this been the nature of its development - is this driven by the interests of its powerful members, by institutional flexibility or the glue of a set of common values? This book tackles such questions, investigating the transformation of the Alliance through the lens of International Relations theory and a set of case studies that looks at operations, enlargement and relations with Russia and the European Union. NATO, it concludes, will continue, but it will remain subject to ongoing crises and challenges of change. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Where is NATO Going? 1

2 Thinking NATO through Theoretically 22

3 Operations 47

4 NATO Enlargement 89

5 NATO-Russia Relations 125

6 NATO and the European Union 153

7 Conclusion 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-269) and index.

ISBN:

9780230004528

0230004520

OCLC:

785873548