Sharing the Burden? : NATO and its Second-Tier Powers / Benjamin Zyla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zyla, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Middle powers--Case studies.

Middle powers.

Canada--Military policy--Case studies.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO's middle powers have been pressured into shouldering an increasing share of the costs of the transatlantic alliance. In Sharing the Burden? Benjamin Zyla rejects the claim that countries like Canada have shirked their responsibilities within NATO. Using a range of measures that go beyond troop numbers and defense budgets to include peacekeeping commitments, foreign economic assistance, and contributions to NATO's rapid reaction forces and infrastructure, Zyla argues that, proportionally, Canada's NATO commitments in the 1990s rivaled those of the alliance's major powers. At the same time, he demonstrates that Canadian policy was driven by strong normative principles to assist failed and failing states rather than a desire to ride the coattails of the United States, as is often presumed. An important challenge to realist theories, Sharing the Burden? is a significant contribution to the debate on the nature of alliances in international relations. --Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Frameworks

Theoretical framework

The conceptual puzzle of the "new world order"

Military burdens

The "new" wars in the Balkans and Iraq, part I

The Balkans, part II

Civilian burdens

The NATO of Canada's dreams : practising civilian burden sharing, part I

Sharing the civilian burden, part II

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-6839-3

1-4426-6838-5

OCLC:

913977356