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Book SynopsisThis timely volume assesses NATO''s current accomplishments, continuing challenges, and potential pitfalls. Leading international scholars and policymakers explore three key themes influencing NATO''s future: transatlantic relations, the debate over enlargement, and the organization''s new functions. Weighing the fate of an alliance poised for renewal or decline, the contributors offer informed analysis and discussion of an organization that has changed profoundly over the past five years and continues to evolve in the face of an uncertain global environment.
Trade ReviewRelevant and important contributions to the debate. * International Affairs *
These cutting-edge articles, by authoritative authors, are so superior as to have become in themselves part of the trans-Atlantic debate . . . by far the best analysis available of this issue of prime importance. -- Andrew J. Pierre, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
This collection of articles is a distinguished contribution to the debate -- Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to Moscow, 1988-1992
This volume provides cutting-edge thinking on the transformations that are molding NATO's future and that will determine the nature of European security in the early 21st century. -- Hans Binnendijk, director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies
A fine collection of articles that provides a complete picture of the difficult issues and choices NATO faces today. -- Stanley Hoffmann
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Transatlantic Relations After the Cold War Chapter 3 Recasting the Atlantic Alliance Chapter 4 Common European Defence and Transatlantic Relations Chapter 5 France's New Relationship with NATO Chapter 6 The Masque of Institutions Part 7 NATO Enlargement Chapter 8 NATO Enlargement: A Framework for Analysis Chapter 9 The Flawed Logic of NATO Enlargement Chapter 10 Can Containment Work Again? Chapter 11 NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States Chapter 12 The Costs of NATO Enlargement Part 13 New Functions Chapter 14 Combined Joint Task Forces in Theory and Practice Chapter 15 Partnership for Peace: Permanent Fixture or Declining Asset? Chapter 16 NATO's Role in Counter-Proliferation Chapter 17 The Western European Union and NATO's 'Europeanisation'
