The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union's common security and defense policy : intersecting trajectories / Sarwar A. Kashmeri.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Kashmeri, Sarwar A.

Series:

SSI monograph

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

European Security and Defense Policy.

European Union countries--Military policy.

European Union countries.

United States--Military relations--European Union countries.

United States.

European Union countries--Defenses.

European Union countries--Armed Forces.

Armed Forces.

Military policy.

Military readiness.

Military relations.

Europe.

Genre:

Case studies

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 44 pages).

Place of Publication:

Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2011]

Summary:

NATO used to be the world's most formidable military alliance. But its original reason for existence, the Soviet Union, disintegrated years ago, and its dreams of being a world cop are withering in the mountains of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the European Union's (EU) Common Security & Defense Policy (CSDP) has deployed 27 successful military/civil missions from Africa to Asia in the last 10 years. Through CSDP, Europeans are increasingly taking charge of managing their own foreign and security policy. NATO is no longer the sole and preeminent Euro-Atlantic security actor. But watching NATO fade into irrelevance would be a mistake. It is a tried and true platform to harness the resources of North America and Europe. NATO's future usefulness depends on its willingness to accept its reduced role, to let the EU handle the day-to-day security needs of Europe, and to craft a relationship with CSDP that will allow North America and Europe to act militarily together, should that ever become necessary. It is time for NATO 2.0, a new version of NATO, to fit the realities of an ever more integrated Europe in the 21st century.

Contents:

Introduction

NATO's declining trajectory

Common Security and Defense Policy's rising trajectory

The Euro-Atlantic security space

NATO's new strategic concept sidesteps reality

Structure of report

The EU Common Security and Defense Policy, 1990-2011. Background

Britain and France change the EU's security equation

CSDP institutions

The Treaty of Lisbon

The question for U.S. policymakers

EU's Common Security and Defense Policy in action

The Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM)

The EU military operation in the Republic of Chad and in the Central African Republic (EUFOR Tchad/RCA)

EUMM Georgia : the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia

Conclusions and recommendations

Policy options

Ramification of options

Execution of policy recommendations #2

Impact of policy recommendations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-44).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Kashmeri, Sarwar A. North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union's common security and defense policy.

Online version: Kashmeri, Sarwar A. North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union's common security and defense policy.

ISBN:

158487502X

9781584875024

OCLC:

744443333

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