NATO for a New Century: Atlanticism and European Security

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NATO's military interventions in the Balkans hve 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. Offering a study of continuing change in the contemporary North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this book is constructed around eight essays by European security experts analyzing challenges confonting the Atlantic Alliance as a military alliance and as a collective security organization dealing simultaneously with deterrence, enlargment, and regional crisis intervention. The evidence is that NATO will undergo many more changes responding to actual and potential threats to Europe's peace. These range from a revival of the ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia to the proliferation and possible use of nuclear,biological, and chmical weapons. Also discussed is the matter of NATO's further enlargement and the question of whether this offers more or less security tothe alliance membership, as are the emerging tensions between the EU and NATO security regimes.

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[T]his edited volume makes a contribution to our understanding of the Alliance's transformation during the last decade. It will be a useful complement to other works in this field and many of its chapters will remain relevant for years to come.-European Foreign Affairs Review
Hodge evaluates the changing role of NATO from collective security to interventionist peacemaker. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.-Choice
"This edited volume makes a contribution to our understanding of the Alliance's transformation during the last decade. It will be a useful complement to other works in this field and many of its chapters will remain relevant for years to come."-European Foreign Affairs Review
"Hodge evaluates the changing role of NATO from collective security to interventionist peacemaker. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice
"[T]his edited volume makes a contribution to our understanding of the Alliance's transformation during the last decade. It will be a useful complement to other works in this field and many of its chapters will remain relevant for years to come."-European Foreign Affairs Review

Author Bio

CARL C. HODGE is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia. He is the author of Redefining European Security, All of the People, All of the Time: American Government at the End of the Century, The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany (Greenwood Press, 1994), and, with Cathal Nolan, Shepherd of Democracy America and Germany in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1992).