The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many
European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision
reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration,
but also the belief that US operational freedom and flexibility had
been hampered during NATO's two Balkans interventions.
This book examines US attitudes to, and perspectives on, the
transatlantic alliance, with a particular focus on US-NATO
relations since 9/11. It demonstrates that, following the decision
to bypass NATO after 9/11, the Bush Administration's perceptions of
the alliance shifted due to a belated recognition that NATO did
indeed have much to offer the US. Hallams explores NATO's
contributions to post-combat reconstruction and stabilisation
operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and argues that the events of
9/11 galvanised NATO into undertaking an accelerated program of
transformation that has done much to reinvigorate the alliance.
This book offers an optimistic assessment of the transatlantic
alliance, counter-balanced by realistic reflections on the problems
it faces. Drawing on interviews with US and NATO officials, it
argues that NATO is far from irrelevant and that prospects for the
alliance remain fundamentally positive; it will be of interest to
students and scholars of US Foreign Policy, American politics,
international relations, security studies and transatlantic
studies.
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