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NATO after Sixty Years - A Stable Crisis (Hardcover)
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NATO after Sixty Years - A Stable Crisis (Hardcover)
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NATO after Sixty Years addresses the challenges of adaptation
confronting the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in the early
twenty-first century. Comprised of essays from a range of experts,
each chapter examines an aspect of NATO's difficult adjustment to
the post Cold War security challenges within and without its
treaty-based responsibilities and competencies. In the book s
introductory chapter, James Sperling establishes the framework and
analytical themes to be developed and explored. The first set of
essays discusses the changing operational and strategic purposes of
the alliance. Sean Kay examines the problem of sustaining the
deterrent capability and collective defence function of the
alliance, particularly the debate over ballistic missile defence.
Mark Webber considers the expanded role of NATO peacekeeping
operations in the Balkans and its implications for NATO as a
military alliance, while Stanley Kober discusses the negative
impact of Afghanistan on alliance solidarity and credibility. The
second section examines the expanded geographical reach and
responsibility of the alliance. Melvin Goodman traces the
engagement of the alliance with the Russian Federation, and Yannis
A. Stivachtis explores NATO's role in the southern and eastern
Mediterranean. Stephen J. Blank covers allied interests in the
Black Sea region and the potential liabilities and benefits of an
active NATO engagement in that region. Nathan Lucas delivers a
sceptical analysis of NATO's ability and need to claim the Persian
Gulf and Indian Ocean as strategic areas of operational
responsibility. The final chapters position NATO in the
institutional context that will shape its evolution as a security
actor in the new geostrategic environment. Lawrence Kaplan
establishes the potential role of NATO as an agent for the United
Nations. Dennis Sandole focuses on the complementary relationship
between the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and
NATO. Stanley Sloan investigates NATO s fraught institutional
relationship with the European Union, particularly the emergence of
the latter as an increasingly effective security actor. Finally,
Jamie Shea reflects on the difficulty of crafting a new strategic
concept that would ensure NATO's continuing viability and
credibility as the primary security institution for the nations of
the North Atlantic area. This volume offers the basis for guarded
optimism that NATO will persist and continue to perform its twin
functions of collective defence and deterrence into the foreseeable
future, despite the periodic crises that temporarily cast its
future into doubt. An in-depth exploration of research and emerging
ideas, NATO after Sixty Years is essential reading for those
interested in NATO s past and present as well as those looking to
its future.
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