Challenging the dominant assumption that NATO intervened in the Balkans because of the threat that conflicts in the region posed to European security, this book develops a new set of research questions based on the hypothesis of the existence of "policy communities". How has NATO managed to survive and transform itself into a peace-enforcement organization?The author demonstrates there were shifting policy communities in operations that shaped the Alliance's transformation process, arguing NATO would not have succeeded in assuming peace-enforcement tasks without other factors ranging from...
Challenging the dominant assumption that NATO intervened in the Balkans because of the threat that conflicts in the region posed to European security,...
