Now fully revised and updated, this accessible and astute text provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critical developments in U.S.-European relations. The first edition highlighted the dangers that U.S. foreign-policy unilateralism could pose for the relationship, a trend that has only intensified over the past few years. Stanley R. Sloan documents and analyzes the substantial ongoing record of U.S. unilateralism and its consequences as the transatlantic and intra-European debate over Iraq produced deep splits among the allies and seriously eroded...
Now fully revised and updated, this accessible and astute text provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critica...
CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Conclusions: An Outline for a New Transatlantic Bargain Premises: NATO in the Post-Cold War World Perspectives: Which NATO? Parameters: The Context for Change Proposals: Beyond Collective Defense APPENDIX A: NATO's Day-to-Day Operation: From Deterrence to Peace Support Operations APPENDIX B: The North Atlantic Treaty APPENDIX C: The Alliance's Strategic Concept About the Author
CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Conclusions: An Outline for a New Transatlantic Bargain Premises: NATO in the Post-Cold War World Perspectives: Which NATO? ...
Under the much different international circumstances of the mid-1980's, it was proposed that the NATO allies ensure NATO's future by striking "a new transatlantic bargain." The mail goal of the new bargain was to increase European responsibilities for alliance missions. Today, a new bargain may be required to clarify NATO's future role as well as to enhance the European role in the alliance.
Under the much different international circumstances of the mid-1980's, it was proposed that the NATO allies ensure NATO's future by striking "a new t...
NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance's mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia's re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO's strategic calculus.
Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing military support for Ukrainian separatists dramatically altered the strategic environment and called...
NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance's mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in al...
NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance's mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia's re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO's strategic calculus.
Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing military support for Ukrainian separatists dramatically altered the strategic environment and called...
NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance's mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in al...
