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...
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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 i
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-195) and index
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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 Security7 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
