Nato and the Transatlantic Alliance in the Twenty-First Century

The Twenty-Year Crisis

G. Williams, B. Jones

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9780333657645
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230599079
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book examines the nature of international politics in the twentieth century. It encapsulates those essential and enduring features likely to be present in the twenty-first century. One important feature is the friction generated by nation states attempting to coexist in a still largely unequal and hierarchical system of states. The possible impact of three powerful, simultaneous and intersecting revolutions on international relations and the future of NATO is assessed in relation to the twenty-first century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• NATO and the Transatlantic Alliancein the 21st Century
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction and Prologue: The End of Total War?
• 2 The Art of Defence Planning
• 3 The European Defence and Security Debate: the Last Fifty Years
• 4 The Origins and Development of Atlanticism
• 5 Neo-Atlanticism: Renewing the Relationship
• 6 The Decline of the Western European Union
• 7 NATO’s Expansion: the End or the Beginning of Collective Defence?
• 8 Collective Security or Collective Defence?
• 9 NATO: the Driving Forces and Predetermined Elements
• 10 NATO: post-Gaullist Realism and the Reality of Alliance
• 11 French Defence Firms in Transition
• 12 Britain’s Defence Diversification Dilemma
• 13 Germany’s Unique Opportunity: Converting a Two-headed Monster
• 14 The US President and Defence Priorities
• 15 Leadership for Defence Transition?
• 16 Peace Advocates and Trade Unions: Defence Restructuring’s Unlikely Alliance
• 17 Defending Conversion in Congress during the Clinton-Gore Administration
• 18 The Future of International Terrorism: the Scourge of the 21st Century
• 19 Conclusions: Towards a Multipolar and Multi-Nuclear World
• Notes
• Index