NATO and European Security: Alliance Politics from the End of the Cold War to the Age of Terrorism

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From the end of the Cold War to the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, the NATO Alliance has changed profoundly. This text explores the multifaceted consequences of NATO's adjustment to new international and domestic political and security realities. Internal Alliance politics and matters of relative power within the membership have strongly influenced contemporary NATO developments. Several major issues challenging the Alliance are examined, including how the impact of efforts to develop an enhanced common European security and defence policy have affected NATO; whether missile defence is driving the US and its European allies closer or further apart; whether the experience of NATO in the Balkans and elsewhere brought alliance members together or made NATO cohesion more difficult to maintain; and in what way the changing role of NATO has influenced American and Canadian participation in the Alliance. An important guidepost to pivotal changes and likely NATO developments, scholars and policymakers of Atlantic and international politics should find this useful.

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ALEXANDER MOENS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Disconcerted Europe: The Search for a New Security Architecture (1994) and Foreign Policy Under Carter: Testing Multiple Advocacy Decision Making (1992). LENARD J. COHEN is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of, among other titles, Serpent in the Bosom: The Rise and Fall of Slobodan Milosevic (2000) and Broken Bonds: Yugoslavian Disintegration and Balkan Politics (1993). ALLEN G. SENS is Senior Instructor in the Department of Poltical Science and Chair of the International Relations Program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His most recent publication is World Politics, Origins, Currents, Directions (1998).