NATO's Return to Europe

Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond

Rebecca R. Moore, Damon Coletta, Rebecca R. Moore, Damon Coletta

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781626164888, 9781626164871
• eBook ISBN: 9781626164895
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Diplomacy & Treaties
• Index: Politics & International Relations

NATO’s 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance’s mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia’s re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO’s strategic calculus.

Russia’s aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing military support for Ukrainian separatists dramatically altered the strategic environment and called into question the liberal European security order. States bordering Russia, many of which are now NATO members, are worried, and the alliance is divided over assessments of Russia’s behavior.  Against the backdrop of Russia’s new assertiveness, an international group of scholars examines a broad range of issues in the interest of not only explaining recent alliance developments but also making recommendations about critical choices confronting the NATO allies. While a renewed emphasis on collective defense is clearly a priority, this volume’s contributors caution against an overcorrection, which would leave the alliance too inwardly focused, play into Russia’s hand, and exacerbate regional fault lines always just below the surface at NATO. This volume places rapid-fire events in theoretical perspective and will be useful to foreign policy students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

Index

Figures and tables are denoted by f and t following the page number.

Abkhazia, 57, 87, 154

Afghanistan, xi, 1, 2, 6, 97

Article 5 and, 48

competition concept in, 114–15

comprehensive approach in, 120–22, 128

counterinsurgency in, 116–19

defense spending and, 24

diffusion concept in, 114, 117

Georgia in, 146

Kosovo vs., 120

lessons of, 113–14, 118, 126–29

Pakistan and, 121–22

partnerships and, 171–72

partnerships in, 123–26, 128–29

United States in, 116–18, 127. See also International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)

Africa, 3, 12, 35, 126–27, 150, 158, 245, 246

air policing, 29–30, 100

Albania, 77

defense spending in, 77t, 144f, 145f

Membership Action Plan and, 140

military downsizing in, 145f

Partnership for Peace and, 141t

all-volunteer military, 24–25

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 203, 224

Arab Spring, 12, 113, 177, 193, 251

Arctic Ocean, 196

Armenia, 20, 141t, 142, 143, 144f, 145f

arms control agreements, 195–96, 197–98

arms sales, 195–96, 219–20

Article 5, x

Baltic States and, x, 38, 180, 194–95

Cold War and, 4

deterrence and, 31–32, 50

enlargement and, 72–73

Partnership for Peace and, 168

September 11 attacks and, 244

Trump and, 14–15

Ukraine Crisis and, 2, 5, 14

Ashdown, Paddy, 120

Atlantic Approaches Pact, 61

Atlas-V rocket, 206–7

Australia, 101, 124, 137, 142, 186

Austria, 136, 147–48, 148t

Azerbaijan, 141t, 142, 143, 144f, 145f

“back to basics,” 6–8

Baker, James, 185

Baltic Air Policing Mission, 100

Baltic States, x, 32–33

air policing in, 29–30, 100

Article 5 a...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword by Nicholas Burns
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Alliance, Identity, and Geopolitics
• One Force Posture after NATO’s Return to Europe: Too Little, Too Late
• Two NATO’s Return: Implications for Extended Deterrence
• Three NATO’s Enlargement Policy to Ukraine and Beyond: Prospects and Options
• Four NATO’s Territorial Defense: The Global Approach and the Regional Approach
• Five Still Learning? NATO’s Afghan Lessons beyond the Ukraine Crisis
• Six European Security at a Crossroads after Ukraine? Institutionalization of Partnerships and Compliance with NATO’s Security Policies
• Seven The Purpose of NATO Partnership: Sustaining Liberal Order beyond the Ukraine Crisis
• Eight NATO-Russia Technical Cooperation: Unheralded Prospects
• Nine The Ukraine Crisis and Beyond: Strategic Opportunity or Strategic Dilemma for the China-Russia Strategic Partnership?
• Conclusion and Comment: NATO’s Ever-Evolving Identity
• List of Contributors
• Index