Introduction; PART I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; Chapter 1. Realism and democratisation; Chapter 2. Neoclassical realism: stringency and richness; PART II. EASTERN EUROPE; Chapter 3. NATO beside a resurgent Russia; Chapter 4. The shadows of Europe's past; Chapter 5. Explaining NATO in Eastern Europe; PART III. WESTERN BALKANS; Chapter 6. NATO in a patchwork of nationalisms; Chapter 7. Great-power strategies of regional security integration; Chapter 8. Explaining NATO in the Western Balkans; PART IV. AFGHANISTAN; Chapter 9. NATO adapting armed democratisation; Chapter 10. Budgetary dispositions and geopolitical interpretations; Chapter 11. Explaining NATO in Afghanistan; PART V. CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 12. The avenue of democratic realism; Chapter 13. NATO in an illiberal world;
Henrik Boesen Lindbo Larsen is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). He served as a Political Adviser with the EU Delegation to Ukraine and before that with the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine. He was previously a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and an EASI-Hurford Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He completed his PhD jointly between the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the University of Southern Denmark and was Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.