NATO for a New Century

Atlanticism and European Security

Carl C. Hodge

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN:
  9780275975944
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313013744
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

NATO's military interventions in the Balkans have transformed the alliance. As the alliance goes East, its members are compelled to rethink NATO's, and each member nation's, military and political roles. Providing a well-rounded study of continuing change in the contemporary North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this book is constructed around eight essays by European security experts analyzing challenges confronting the Atlantic Alliance as a military alliance and as a collective security organization dealing simultaneously with deterrence, enlargement, and regional crisis intervention. It is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, American foreign policy, European studies, security and strategic studies.

The evidence is that NATO will undergo many more changes responding to actual and potential threats to Europe's peace. These range from a revival of the ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia to the proliferation and possible use of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Also discussed is the matter of NATO's further enlargement and the question of whether this offers more or less security to the alliance membership, as are the emerging tensions between the EU and NATO security regimes.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 "The Healthy Bones of a Single Pomeranian Grenadier": The Atlantic Alliance and the Humanitarian Principle
• 2 NATO Enlargement and Geostrategic History: Alliances and the Question of War or Peace
• 3 Western and Eastern Europe after the East-West Conflict: Reinventing Responsibility and a Grand Strategy
• 4 Developing a NATO-EU Security Regime
• 5 Toward an Ethic of Responsibility? Kosovo, NATO, and the Dilemmas of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
• 6 NATO North and South: Alliance Ostpolitik and the Future of European Security
• 7 Missile Defenses: Implications for NATO
• 8 NATO and the First-Use of Nuclear Weapons
• The Vocation of Peace, the Hypothesis of War
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors