NATO's Return to Europe: Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond - Softcover

Associate Professor Rebecca R Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626164886 ISBN 13: 9781626164888

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2017

Synopsis

NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance's mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. However, Russia's re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO's strategic calculus.

Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing military support for Ukrainian separatists dramatically altered the strategic environment and called into question the liberal European security order. States bordering Russia, many of which are now NATO members, are worried, and the alliance is divided over assessments of Russia's behavior. Against the backdrop of Russia's new assertiveness, an international group of scholars examines a broad range of issues in the interest of not only explaining recent alliance developments but also making recommendations about critical choices confronting the NATO allies. While a renewed emphasis on collective defense is clearly a priority, this volume's contributors caution against an overcorrection, which would leave the alliance too inwardly focused, play into Russia's hand, and exacerbate regional fault lines always just below the surface at NATO. This volume places rapid-fire events in theoretical perspective and will be useful to foreign policy students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

About this title

Review:

Delivers a very robust and updated overview of the Alliance's current strategic situation. . . . Should be of great value and interest both for practitioners and students of transatlantic relations.

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About the Author:

Rebecca R. Moore is a professor of political science at Concordia College. She is the author of NATO's New Mission: Projecting Stability in a Post-Cold War World and coeditor of NATO in Search of a Vision.

Damon Coletta is a professor of political science at the US Air Force Academy. He coedited American Defense Policy, 8th Edition, authored Trusted Guardian: Information Sharing and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, and is editor of the journal Space & Defense.

About this edition

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1626164886
• ISBN 13: 9781626164888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Associate Professor Rebecca R Moore