NATO After 2000: The Future of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance

by John Borawski, Thomas-Durell Young

Overview

Borawski and Young provide a serious analysis of the major issues confronting European-North American relations. They draw detailed attention to the fundamental political and military issues before the Atlantic Alliance.

They illustrate that NATO remains essential to Euro-Atlantic security. Only the Atlantic Alliance can bring to bear well-tested military capability under US leadership to promote its members security, interests, and democratic values. However, to remain vital, the Alliance must undertake a serious review of its major purposes: enlargement to the former Warsaw Pact nations, a strategic partnership with Russia, defense against weapons of mass destruction, and a more mature transatlantic relationship drawing on the lessons of the former Yugoslavia. This is an important assessment for policymakers, military planners, scholars, students, and others concerned with current European-American relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275971793
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/2001
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1790L (what's this?)

About the Author

JOHN BORAWSKI is an editor of the jourbanal Helsinki Monitor, formerly director of the Political Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, Belgium, and security advisor to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

THOMAS-DURELL YOUNG is European Program Manager at the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and formerly Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Glossary
Summary
Introduction
Risks and Capabilities
The European Dimension
What Price Honor?
Russia
The Open Door
The Hand of Friendship
Revisiting the Common European Home
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Now 50-something, the North Atlantic Treat Organization faces numerous challenges in the 21st century including a review of defense mission and priorities; expanding membership; force structures; and its relationships with Russia, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Hoping to influence US leadership on ensuring NATO's continued relevance, this volume studies NATO's capabilities and risks in depth. Appends a 1999 press release on the Alliance's strategic concept, and the Istanbul Summit Declaration (1999). The late Borawski was once affiliated with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels. Young is at the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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