Nato And Eastern Europe After 2000

Author : Laure Paquette
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1560729694

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NATO and Eastern Europe After 2000 by Laure Paquette Pdf

NATO is acutely aware of its increased status as a force for stability in a drastically altered Atlantic community. The number of its initiatives is on the increase just as a new political, economic and military Europe emerges. The Cold War's end has wrought as many changes as there are continuities in the security environment. Eastern and Central European states, especially NATO and PfP members, enjoy an increasing importance to NATO, both as trading partners and as new participants in the civil society. While the literature on relations between NATO and the East Europeans is rather limited, the study of the overall posture of those states in the international system is almost non-existent, so that the consequences of their posture for NATO's renewed concept are unknown. The study of these countries' security posture and strategic interactions with Central European states in general promotes the renewed role of NATO. This book shows that each of the long-term relations with Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria is subordinated to the goal of entering the European Union, and that their different values will makes relations difficult. This will test NATO's new strategic concept to the limit. It also shows the importance of strategic thinking.

Author : Ted Galen Carpenter
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1882577175

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Beyond NATO by Ted Galen Carpenter Pdf

NATO is unnecessary because the West European nations now have the economic and military resources to protect their own security, according to Carpenter. He calls on the US to withdraw from the alliance, form a more limited and flexible security relationship with Western Europe, and encourage the European powers to take responsibility for the stability of their own region. Above all, he urges US policymakers to remain aloof from European conflicts that do not have direct, significant bearing on America's vital interests. Paper edition (17-5), $9.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732587

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Beyond NATO by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The countries in question collectively make a broken-up arc, from Europe's far north to its south: Finland and Sweden; Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus; Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan; and finally Cyprus plus Serbia, as well as possibly several other Balkan states. Discussion on the new framework should begin within NATO, followed by deliberation with the neutral countries themselves, and then formal negotiations with Russia. The new security architecture would require that Russia, like NATO, commit to help uphold the security of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and other states in the region. Russia would have to withdraw its troops from those countries in a verifiable manner; after that, corresponding sanctions on Russia would be lifted. The neutral countries would retain their rights to participate in multilateral security operations on a scale comparable to what has been the case in the past, including even those operations that might be led by NATO. They could think of and describe themselves as Western states (or anything else, for that matter). If the European Union and they so wished in the future, they could join the EU. They would have complete sovereignty and self-determination in every sense of the word. But NATO would decide not to invite them into the alliance as members. Ideally, these nations would endorse and promote this concept themselves as a more practical way to ensure their security than the current situation or any other plausible alternative.

Author : James Goldgeier,Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031233647

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Evaluating NATO Enlargement by James Goldgeier,Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson Pdf

Mobilizing an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, this book reviews the history and consequences of NATO’s post-Cold War enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe. It offers a nuanced discussion of the merits and drawbacks of NATO enlargement across the different actors involved and compares the results of the policy against potential alternatives that were not chosen. Particular attention is given to NATO enlargement’s influence on the course of U.S. foreign policy, democracy and security in Central and Eastern Europe, NATO’s own development as a political and military institution, and relations with China and Russia (including the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War). Written for an engaged audience, the book is designed to appeal to students, researchers, and policymakers alike while offering both policy insights and avenues for future scholarship.

Author : Ainius Lasas
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215356218

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European Union and NATO Expansion by Ainius Lasas Pdf

Following the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, many Central and Eastern European Countries launched a vigorous “return to Europe” campaign, which primarily focused on accession to NATO and the European Union. By 2007, ten countries became members of the Euro-Atlantic community, personifying the long-awaited reunification and reconciliation of Europe. The book argues that the EU and NATO eastern enlargements represent a settlement of historical-psychological accounts for countries affected by the “black trinity”: the Munich Agreement, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Yalta-Potsdam Conferences.

Author : Peter Duignan
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0817997830

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NATO: Its Past, Present, Future by Peter Duignan Pdf

Author : Sergey Radchenko,Timothy Andrews Sayle,Christian Ostermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000529319

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NATO in the Cold War and After by Sergey Radchenko,Timothy Andrews Sayle,Christian Ostermann Pdf

This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order in the 1990s, with an eye to better understanding its present and its future. NATO’s history, now running over seventy years, can no longer be framed in Cold War terms alone. Nor can the organization be understood fully as a post-Cold War institution. Today’s NATO is a product of both these eras. This edited volume offers a reconsideration of NATO’s place in history, looking both at how the alliance coped with the Cold War and how it managed its difficult transition to the post-Cold War international order. Contributors recount how NATO coped with its many political and operational challenges, which on occasion threatened – but never managed to – derail the alliance. The book opens new vistas for explaining how NATO thrived and survived for decades and ponders whether it will survive for many more. The book will be of great value to scholars, students and policymakers interested in Politics, International Studies, Global Affairs and Public Policy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Strategic Studies.

Author : Robert W. Rauchhaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0714681539

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Explaining NATO Enlargement by Robert W. Rauchhaus Pdf

No proceedings publication was planned when political scientists gathered in Berkeley in the spring of 1998 for a conference on NATO enlargement, but by the end of it, they decided that too many important issues and ideas had been brought to up let scatter undocumented. The ten essays evaluate the pros and cons of enlarging the alliance, explain why it was expanded eastward, and recommend which countries if any should be offered membership in the future. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Ronald D. Asmus
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231502399

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Opening NATO's Door by Ronald D. Asmus Pdf

How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment to the old continent in decades? Written by a high-level insider, Opening NATO's Door provides a definitive account of the ideas, politics, and diplomacy that went into the historic decision to expand NATO to Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the still-classified archives of the U.S. Department of State, Ronald D. Asmus recounts how and why American policy makers, against formidable odds at home and abroad, expanded NATO as part of a broader strategy to overcome Europe's Cold War divide and to modernize the Alliance for a new era. Asmus was one of the earliest advocates and intellectual architects of NATO enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism in the early 1990s and subsequently served as a top aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, responsible for European security issues. He was involved in the key negotiations that led to NATO's decision to extend invitations to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and finally, the U.S. Senate's ratification of enlargement. Asmus documents how the Clinton Administration sought to develop a rationale for a new NATO that would bind the U.S. and Europe together as closely in the post-Cold War era as they had been during the fight against communism. For the Clinton Administration, NATO enlargement became the centerpiece of a broader agenda to modernize the U.S.-European strategic partnership for the future. That strategy reflected an American commitment to the spread of democracy and Western values, the importance attached to modernizing Washington's key alliances for an increasingly globalized world, and the fact that the Clinton Administration looked to Europe as America's natural partner in addressing the challenges of the twenty-first century. As the Alliance weighs its the future following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and prepares for a second round of enlargement, this book is required reading about the first post-Cold War effort to modernize NATO for a new era.

Author : Anton Bebler
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607500933

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NATO at 60 by Anton Bebler Pdf

As we reach its 60th anniversary, NATO a security alliance of 28 countries from North America and Europe - remains the principal security instrument of the transatlantic community and the expression of its common democratic values. However, the NATO today is not longer that of 1949. After the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, NATO had to reinvent itself politically for the initial challenges of the post-Cold War era. In the space of a decade NATO successfully transformed itself from a North American-Western European Alliance focused exclusively on territorial defence into a pan-European institution with new members stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. NATO s missions have changed and its structures have been reformed accordingly. It has had to adapt to the changing world and changing threats such as terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational trafficking, piracy, cyber attacks or climate change. Sixty years after its foundation NATO has not become rusty or outdated. On the contrary, in the new security environment its role has increased. NATO remains the pre-eminent institutional framework for the USA, Canada and Europe not just to consult together, but also to act together. NATO s key stabilising role in the Balkans and, more recently, in Afghanistan; its role in fighting terrorism; and the continuing interest on the part of several nations in joining NATO, all demonstrate that the Alliance is very much in demand. The Post-Cold War enlargement and the Alliance s future reflects upon NATO s achievements and setbacks at the time that explores the challenges that lie ahead in the future of the most successful military Alliance of the modern Euro-Atlantic history and beyond. This book is a must-have for those interested in international relations, global security and defence issues. IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

Author : Jacek Lubecki,James W. Peterson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526147554

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Defending Eastern Europe by Jacek Lubecki,James W. Peterson Pdf

Following the passage of the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the entry of many former communist states into both NATO and the EU in 2019, this book takes a comprehensive look at the changed security conditions of these new member states. How has NATO and EU membership improved their overall defence protection, and what elements are still missing for them on an individual state basis? Utilising alliance politics theory, convergence/divergence theory and defence policy theory, the book provides an invaluable assessment of defence policies, from the stable East Central European states to the most jeopardised Baltic states in the north of Europe. With chapters on the Cold War defence conditions during the last two decades of Soviet domination, post 1989–91 transformations in the direction of democracy and the impact of the 2014 Ukraine–Russia–Crimea crisis, this book is essential reading for those seeking to understand the changed landscape of European politics in the twenty-first century.

Author : Walter Goldstein
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032149422

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Security in Europe by Walter Goldstein Pdf

This volume contains pieces from 13 contributors who examine the prospects of war and peace facing Europe as it prepares to enter the 21st century.

Author : Ted Galen Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780714641713

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The Future of NATO by Ted Galen Carpenter Pdf

The end of the Cold War raises important questions about the future of NATO. A series of events has transformed the political landscape of Europe and erased the original rationale for the Alliance - the defence of Western Europe from an aggressive totalitarian enemy. Can NATO survive in a vastly altered political and strategic environment? Indeed, should the Alliance survive, or is it an anachronism in the post-Cold War era? The eight contributors to The Future of NATO are among the most knowledgeable experts in international affairs, and they offer a variety of perspectives and policy prescriptions.

Author : Jason Blessing,Katherine Kjellström Elgin,Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters,Rakel Tiderman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781947661110

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NATO 2030 by Jason Blessing,Katherine Kjellström Elgin,Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters,Rakel Tiderman Pdf

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the world’s largest, most powerful military alliance. The Alliance has navigated and survived the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the post-9/11 era. Since the release of the 2010 Strategic Concept, NATO’s strategic environment has again undergone significant change. The need to adapt is clear. An opportunity to assess the Alliance’s achievements and future goals has now emerged with the Secretary General’s drive to create a new Strategic Concept for the next decade—an initiative dubbed NATO 2030. A necessary step for formulating a new strategic outlook will thus be understanding the future that faces NATO. To remain relevant and adjust to new circumstances, the Alliance must identify its main challenges and opportunities in the next ten years and beyond. This book contributes to critical conversations on NATO’s future vitality by examining the Alliance’s most salient issues and by offering recommendations to ensure its effectiveness moving forward. Written by a diverse, multigenerational group of policymakers and academics from across Europe and the United States, this book provides new insights about NATO’s changing threat landscape, its shifting internal dynamics, and the evolution of warfare. The volume’s authors tackle a wide range of issues, including the challenges of Russia and China, democratic backsliding, burden sharing, the extension of warfare to space and cyberspace, partnerships, and public opinion. With rigorous assessments of NATO’s challenges and opportunities, each chapter provides concrete recommendations for the Alliance to chart a path for the future. As such, this book is an indispensable resource for NATO’s strategic planners and security and defense experts more broadly.

Author : Julianne Smith
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0892065591

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The NATO-Russia Relationship by Julianne Smith Pdf