NATO in the post-Cold War era : continuity and transformation / / edited by Massimo De Leonardis

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Disciplina: 355.031091821
• Persona (resp. second.): De LeonardisMassimo <1949->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for NATO in the Post-Cold War Era -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: NATO in Its Seventh Decade-A Reappraisal -- History's Most Successful Alliance Needs Better Publicity -- NATO Evolution During the Cold War -- A Flexible Treaty -- NATO Operations After the Cold War -- Bibliography -- 2 The Historical Roots of the Atlantic Alliance Between Values and Interests -- The Short Term Path to the Atlantic Pact -- The United States: 'Necessary but Undesirable' -- Failed Efforts to Create an 'Atlantic Community': The Debate on Art. 2 in the 1950s -- Conclusion: Increasingly Diverging Perspectives After the Cold War, but Still Very Close -- Bibliography -- 3 A Troublesome Relationship: The US Grand Strategy and NATO -- The Cold War: An Age of Consensus? -- From 11/9 to 9/11: The Legacy of a 'Lost' Decade? -- The Age of Disenchantment: 9/11 to 11/9 -- The US 'Pivot to Asia': Another Challenge to the Atlantic Alliance? -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 4 Russia-NATO-US: From Detente to Impossible Cooperation -- Bibliography -- 5 The Anglo-American Special Relationship and NATO: The Past and the Present as Indicators of What Might Come Next? -- Introduction -- The Most Equal -- SACLANT and Anglo-American Relations -- The SNF Crisis and Anglo-American Relations -- Post-Cold War Relations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6 The Role of NATO in European Integration -- Introduction -- Automatism and Discrimination: European Defence Before the North Atlantic Treaty: 1947-1949 -- The Conditioned De-discrimination: Germany, the Failure of the EDC, and the Creation of the WEU (1950-1954) -- The Pleven Plan and the European Defence Community (EDC) -- The Western European Union (WEU) and West German Rearmament Within NATO. ; NATO and European Security Cooperation at the Cold War's End: From German Unity to Maastricht (1986-1992) -- NATO and European Defence After Brexit -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 The Origins of the Post-Cold War NATO Enlargement: Stability Projection and Factor of Crisis -- The US Decision to Enlarge NATO -- The Russian Thorn -- Inter-Allied Negotiations -- Conclusion: The Seeds of Today's Conflict -- Bibliography -- 8 NATO's Partnerships in the Mediterranean and the Greater Middle East -- Introduction -- NATO Med Dialogue -- The Expansion of Med Dialogue -- The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative -- The New Strategic Concept and the Problematic Cooperation with the Med and the Greater Middle East -- NATO and the Arab Revolutions -- The Fight Against ISIS. The Embraced NATO Regional Order for the Med and the Greater Middle East Collapses -- New Actors in the Med and the Greater Middle East and the Reconfiguration of the Partnerships -- Bibliography -- 9 NATO and the Impact of the Long War in Afghanistan: Avoiding a Wrong Memory About ISAF -- The Long War in Afghanistan and the Narrative of Failure -- NATO as the Late Comer in Kabul -- Peacekeeping and State-Building During War: NATO-ISAF Alongside Enduring Freedom -- From Peacekeeping to Counterterrorism: ISAF's Strategic and Tactical Adjustments During the Mission -- Conclusion: Avoiding a Wrong Memory -- Bibliography -- 10 NATO from the Balkans to Libya: Dynamics and Renewal of a Wilsonian Alliance -- The Atlantic Alliance Beyond Neorealism -- From Bosnia to NATO's Enlargement -- NATO at War: The Limits of Multilateralism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 11 NATO and the Fight Against International Terrorism -- Introduction -- Conceptual Analysis -- NATO's Response to Terrorism -- An Evolving Counter-Terrorism Framework -- Constraints and Shortfalls of NATO's Counter-Terrorism Strategy. ; Political Divergences -- Better Cooperation with Other Organisations -- What Role for NATO? -- More and Deeper Partnership -- Intelligence Sharing -- Optimising Resources -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 How Strong Is NATO's Arm: Commands, Cash, Capabilities and Contributions -- Introduction -- The Shifts of the Alliance's Command Structure -- The Transformation of NATO Commands Until 2014 -- The Post-2014 Re-adaptation -- The Issue of Allies' Defence Spending -- Military Budgets Trends Until 2014 -- The 2014 Defence Spending Pledge and the Transatlantic Burden Sharing -- Comparing Defence Spending in NATO and Russia -- Capabilities and Contributions to Collective Defence and Deterrence -- The Role of NATO Defence Planning Process -- The NATO Force Structure and the Eastern Flank -- Deterrence Through Tripwire, Defence Via Reinforcements -- Bibliography -- 13 Conclusion: NATO Between Mere Survival and Strategic Relaunching -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
• Titolo autorizzato: NATO in the post-Cold War era
• ISBN: 9783031060632; 9783031060625
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910633932803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world.