Nato Reconsidered

Author : Wesley B. Truitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Diplomacy
ISBN : 9798400689970

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NATO Reconsidered by Wesley B. Truitt Pdf

Is NATO still in the best interest of the United States? This provocative work argues that the focus on NATO distracts the U.S. from the vital foreign policy challenges of the 21st century, most notably China's rise in power. Since its beginning in 1949, NATO-the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-has been at the center of U.S. foreign policy. The alliance was crucial during the decades of the Cold War, and the United States collaborated closely with NATO during crises in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Libya. But does the NATO alliance still serve the best interests of the U.S.? The NATO of today-one that has expanded to 30 member countries-risks involving the U.S. in unwanted military activities of the future, actions that were not intended in the original Atlantic alliance. In addition, the real challenges for foreign policy of 21st century are not in Europe, but in the expanding economic powerhouses in Asia, especially China. NATO Reconsidered argues that the changes in world politics in recent decades requires that the more than 70-year-old alliance should no longer be the principal focus of U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Wesley B. Truitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440871399

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NATO Reconsidered by Wesley B. Truitt Pdf

Is NATO still in the best interest of the United States? This provocative work argues that the focus on NATO distracts the U.S. from the vital foreign policy challenges of the 21st century, most notably China's rise in power. Since its beginning in 1949, NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—has been at the center of U.S. foreign policy. The alliance was crucial during the decades of the Cold War, and the United States collaborated closely with NATO during crises in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Libya. But does the NATO alliance still serve the best interests of the U.S.? The NATO of today—one that has expanded to 30 member countries—risks involving the U.S. in unwanted military activities of the future, actions that were not intended in the original Atlantic alliance. In addition, the real challenges for foreign policy of 21st century are not in Europe, but in the expanding economic powerhouses in Asia, especially China. NATO Reconsidered argues that the changes in world politics in recent decades requires that the more than 70-year-old alliance should no longer be the principal focus of U.S. foreign policy.

Author : Stanley R. Sloan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742517608

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NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community by Stanley R. Sloan Pdf

An interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance, this title explores the deep roots of contemporary tensions shaking the alliance as its members face the challenge of adapting to threats posed by terrorism and proliferating weapons of mass destruction.

Author : Tasos Kokkinides,Martin Butcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : 1874533288

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NATO Expansion by Tasos Kokkinides,Martin Butcher Pdf

Author : Christopher Rossi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132577

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Remoteness Reconsidered by Christopher Rossi Pdf

When the margin IS the center, perspectives shift

Author : Laurien Crump
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317555308

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The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered by Laurien Crump Pdf

The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact inadvertently provided its members with an opportunity to assert their own interests, emancipate themselves from the Soviet grip, and influence Soviet bloc policy. Laurien Crump traces this development through six thematic case studies, which deal with such well known events as the building of the Berlin Wall, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Vietnam War, the nuclear question, and the Prague Spring. By interpreting hitherto neglected archival evidence from archives in Berlin, Bucharest, and Rome, and approaching the Soviet alliance from a radically novel perspective, the book offers unexpected insights into international relations in Eastern Europe, while shedding new light on a pivotal period in the Cold War.

Author : Sergey Radchenko,Timothy A. Sayle,Christian F. Ostermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 1032170611

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NATO in the Cold War and After by Sergey Radchenko,Timothy A. Sayle,Christian F. 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 : Sten Rynning
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300277654

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NATO by Sten Rynning Pdf

A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia’s war on Ukraine and on Europe’s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold? In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction. At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance’s intriguing history—and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.

Author : S. Gänzle,A. Sens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230801349

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The Changing Politics of European Security by S. Gänzle,A. Sens Pdf

The Changing Politics of European Security explores the key security challenges confronting Europe, from relations with the US and Russia to the use of military force and the struggle against terrorism. In the future, the authors conclude, European states will act alone, independent of America, on security matters.

Author : Stanley R. Sloan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742535738

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NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community by Stanley R. Sloan Pdf

Provides an interpretive history of the trans-atlantic alliance and explores critical developments in US European relations. The author considers the ongoing pattern of US unilateralism and its consequences as the trans-atlantic and intra-European debate over Iraq produced deep splits among the allies and eroded European trust in US leadership.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Karl P. Mueller
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833088079

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Precision and Purpose by Karl P. Mueller Pdf

A team of U.S. and international experts assesses the impact of various nations’ airpower efforts during the 2011 conflict in Libya, including NATO allies and non-NATO partners, and how their experiences offer guidance for future conflicts. In addition to the roles played by the United States, Britain and France, it examines the efforts of Italy, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Qatar, the UAE, and the Libyan rebels.

Author : Harlan Cleveland
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002153883

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NATO: the Transatlantic Bargain by Harlan Cleveland Pdf

Author : Jennifer Medcalf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780741697

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NATO by Jennifer Medcalf Pdf

A thorough and straightforward overview of the full spectrum of NATO's military and non-military activities since the Cold War, this accessible study also provides valuable insight into the issues and problems facing NATO in the post-9/11 and post-Iraq War world. Author Jennifer Medcalf clearly and concisely discusses each of the main areas on NATO's agenda and also looks at the future of the organization.

Author : Roger D. Lanius,John M. Logsdon,Robert W. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134960262

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Reconsidering Sputnik by Roger D. Lanius,John M. Logsdon,Robert W. Smith Pdf

This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe. An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A. McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century.