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The future of NATO
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ISBN: 0876094868 9780876094860 9780876094679 0876094671 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Council on Foreign Relations

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Takes on the question of how NATO, having successfully kept the peace in Europe in the twentieth century, can adapt to the challenges of the twenty-first. Contends that NATO retains value for the United States and Europe, but that it must expand its vision of collective defense in order to remain relevant and effective. This means recognizing the full range of threats that confront NATO members today and affirming that the alliance will respond collectively to an act (whether by an outside state or a nonstate entity) that imperils the political or economic security or territorial integrity of a member state. NATO has been a cornerstone of security in Europe, and of U.S. foreign policy, for six decades. But its ability to continue playing such a central role is unclear. This report takes a sober look at what the alliance and its members must do to maintain NATO's relevance in the face of today's strategic environment.


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International security in practice
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ISBN: 9780521122030 9780521199162 0521122031 0521199166 9780511676185 9780511679537 051167953X 9780511681516 0511681518 9780511677021 0511677022 0511676182 9786612536021 6612536020 1107205573 1282536028 0511678282 0511683499 Year: 2010 Volume: 113 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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How do once bitter enemies move beyond entrenched rivalry at the diplomatic level? In one of the first attempts to apply practice theory to the study of International Relations, Vincent Pouliot builds on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology to devise a theory of practice of security communities and applies it to post-Cold War security relations between NATO and Russia. Based on dozens of interviews and a thorough analysis of recent history, Pouliot demonstrates that diplomacy has become a normal, though not a self-evident, practice between the two former enemies. He argues that this limited pacification is due to the intense symbolic power struggles that have plagued the relationship ever since NATO began its process of enlargement at the geographical and functional levels. So long as Russia and NATO do not cast each other in the roles that they actually play together, security community development is bound to remain limited.


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A transformation gap? : American innovations and European military change
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ISBN: 080478180X 9780804781800 9780804763776 9780804763783 Year: 2010 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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NATO member states are all undergoing some form of military transformation. Despite a shared vision, transformation has been primarily a US-led process centered on the exploitation of new information technologies in combination with new concepts for "networked organizations" and "effects-based operations." Simply put, European states have been unable to match the level of US investment in new military technologies, leading to the identification of a growing "transformation gap" between the US and the European allies. This book assesses the extent and trajectory of military transformation across a range of European NATO member states, setting their transformation progress against that of the US, and examining the complex mix of factors driving military transformation in each country. It reveals not only the nature and extent of the transatlantic gap, but also identifies an enormous variation in the extent and pace of transformation among the European allies, suggesting both technological and operational gaps within Europe.


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The globalization of NATO : intervention, security and indentity.
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ISBN: 9780415570176 0415570174 9780203849484 9781136955631 9781136955679 9781136955686 9781138831896 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Routledge


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EU civilian crisis management : the record so far
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ISBN: 9780833049193 0833049194 9786612940408 0833050249 1282940406 9780833050243 9781282940406 6612940409 Year: 2010 Publisher: Santa Monica (Cal.) : RAND,

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The European Union has been deploying civilians in conflict and postconflict stabilization missions since 2003, and the scope of civilian missions is likely to increase in the future. This volume offers a general overview and assessment of the EU's civilian operations to date, as well as a more in-depth look at the two missions in which the EU has worked alongside NATO: Afghanistan and Kosovo.


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Risking NATO
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ISBN: 9780833050113 0833050117 0833051164 9780833051165 Year: 2010 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND

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NATO's success in Afghanistan--or lack thereof--will have significant implications for the alliance itself. The authors examine the current mission in light of NATO's history and with an eye toward the future. NATO faces a long and daunting list of issues that extends beyond the borders of the member countries. The alliance must confront them, however, because failure to do so would risk its long-term success and sustainability.


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War by land, sea, and air : Dwight Eisenhower and the concept of unified command
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ISBN: 1299463959 0300155689 9780300155686 9780300153897 0300153899 9780300171358 0300171358 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press,

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In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower's lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military-a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower's presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower's approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process.


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European Union and NATO expansion.
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ISBN: 9780230100015 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

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"Following the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, many Central and Eastern European Countries launched a vigorous "return to Europe" campaign, which primarily focused on accession to NATO and the European Union. By 2007, ten countries became members of the Euro-Atlantic community, personifying the long-awaited reunification and reconciliation of Europe. The book argues that the EU and NATO eastern enlargements represent a settlement of historical-psychological accounts for countries affected by the "black trinity": the Munich Agreement, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Yalta-Potsdam Conferences"--Provided by publisher.

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European Union --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- Europe --- Economic integration --- Political aspects. --- North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationEuropeEconomic integration --- #SBIB:327.7H233 --- #SBIB:327.7H32 --- Europese Unie: externe relaties, buitenlands- en defensiebeleid (ook WEU) --- Bondgenootschappen: NAVO / NATO --- NATO --- Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte --- Organizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ severoatlanticheskogo dogovora --- Orhanizat︠s︡ii︠a︡ pivnichnoatlantychnoho dohovoru --- Organisation Traité Atlantique Nord --- Severoatlanticheskiĭ blok --- Noord Atlantische Verdrags-Organisatie --- Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique-Nord --- Organismos Boreioatlantikou Symphōnou --- Atlantic Alliance --- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation --- Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord --- Északatlanti Szövetség --- Atlantisch Bondgenootschap --- Noord-Atlantisch Bondgenootschap --- Atlanshafsbandalagið --- N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) --- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) --- OTAN (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) --- N.A.V.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) --- NAVO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) --- Kuzey Atlantik Andlaşması Örgütü --- O.T.A.N. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) --- Organizacja Paktu Północnoatlantyckiego --- Nordatlantisches Bündnis --- Atlantisches Bündnis --- Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrages --- Atlantische Allianz --- North Atlantic Alliance --- Alliance de l'atlantique nord --- Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego --- Patto atlantico --- Ḥilf Shamāl al-Aṭlanṭī --- Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte --- Ḥilf al-Aṭlasī --- Alleanza atlantica --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Pohjois-Atlantin liitto --- Nātū --- Sāzmān-i Paymān-i Ātlāntīk-i Shimālī --- سازمان پىمان آتلانتىک شمالى --- North Atlantic treaty organisation --- NAVO --- OTAN


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Russia's European agenda and the Baltic States
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ISBN: 9780415554008 9780203861837 0203861833 0415554004 9781135181062 1135181063 9781135181109 1135181101 9781135181116 113518111X 9781138985599 1138985597 9786612974533 6612974532 128297453X Year: 2010 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Russian foreign policy has become an increasing concern in 21st century, together with Russia's relations with its former Soviet neighbours - but its relations with the Baltic States are particularly sensitive, given the Baltic membership of NATO and the EU and Russia's increasingly fractious relations with those institutions. This book discusses the development of Russia's approach to the new security architecture in Europe and assesses the prospects for a more active engagement of Russia in the Baltic Sea region and Europe as a whole. The book considers the full range of issues

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