The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: The Enduring Alliance (Global Institutions)

171 Pages·2006·0.95 MB·English

by  Lindley-french

The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization provides an incisive analysis of the
Atlantic Alliance and clearly outlines all of NATO’s key facets to deliver an
authoritative account.
Detailing the origins, structure, workings and activities of this institution,
the volume examines the past of the Alliance to put NATO’s future in context
as the institutional basis for the security dimension of the transatlantic rela-
tionship, and as an institution vital to global security.
The book is divided into three sections:
• Cold War NATO
• Strategic Vacation
• New Age NATO
Commencing with the impact of 11 September 2001 on the Alliance, the reader
is taken through NATO’s story to demonstrate the political robustness of an
alliance continually in political crisis, from its foundation in 1949, as the threat
posed by the Soviet Union waxed and waned, through to the difficulties caused
by NATO’s lack of political cohesion. Having established the timeline, the book
provides a snapshot of NATO today, its members, structure and mission and
the new tasks for which it must prepare. The book concludes by considering the
challenges the Alliance must face as it prepares for the big security dilemmas of
the twenty-first century, the differences in both strategy and power ofAmericans
and Europeans, and the contrast between yesterday’s NATO and today’s.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organizationis essential reading for all students
of politics and international relations and will be of interest to all readers who
wish to acquire an excellent understanding of this key force in world affairs.
Julian Lindley-French is currently a Senior Scholar at the Center for Applied
Policy, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and Senior Associate Fellow
of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. His recent works include A
European Defence Strategy (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2004), A
Chronology of European Security and Defence 1945–2005 (Geneva: Geneva
Centre for Security Policy, 2005) and Why Europe Needs to Be Strong... and
the World Needs a Strong Europe”(Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2005).
Routledge Global Institutions
Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
(The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA) and
Rorden Wilkinson
(University of Manchester, UK)
The “Global Institutions Series” is designed to provide readers with
comprehensive, accessible, and informative guides to the history,
structure, and activities of key international organizations. Every
volume stands on its own as a thorough and insightful treatment of a
particular topic, but the series as a whole contributes to a coherent and
complementary portrait of the phenomenon of global institutions at
the dawn of the millennium.
Books are written by recognized experts, conform to a similar struc-
ture, and cover a range of themes and debates common to the series.
These areas of shared concern include the general purpose and ratio-
nale for organizations, developments over time, membership, structure,
decision-making procedures, and key functions. Moreover, current
debates are placed in historical perspective alongside informed analysis
and critique. Each book also contains an annotated bibliography and
guide to electronic information as well as any annexes appropriate to
the subject matter at hand.
The volumes currently published or under contract include:
The United Nations and Human United Nations Global Conferences
Rights (2005) (2005)
AGuide for a New Era by Michael G. Schechter (Michigan
byJulie A. Mertus (American State University)
University)
The UN General Assembly (2005)
The UN Secretary-General and by M.J. Peterson (University of
Secretariat (2005) Massachusetts, Amherst)
by Leon Gordenker (Princeton
University)
Internal Displacement: UN Conference on Trade and
Conceptualization and Its Development
Consequences (2006) by Ian Taylor (University ofSt.
by Thomas G. Weiss (The CUNY Andrews)
Graduate Center) and David A. Korn
ACrisis ofGlobal Institutions?
Global Environmental Institutions Multilateralism and International
(2006) Security
by Elizabeth R. DeSombre (Wellesley by Edward Newman (United Nations
College) University)
UN Security Council (2006) The World Bank
by Edward C. Luck (Columbia From Reconstruction to
University) Development to Equity
by Katherine Marshall (Georgetown
The World Intellectual Property University)
Organization (2007)
Resurgence and the Development The African Union
Agenda Past and Future Governance
by Chris May (University ofthe West Challenges
ofEngland) by Samuel M. Makinda (Murdoch
University) and Wafula Okumu
The North Atlantic Treaty (McMaster University)
Organization (2007)
The Enduring Alliance Organisation for Economic
by Julian Lindley-French (Center for Co-operation and Development
Applied Policy,Ludwig Maximilians byRichardWoodward (University of
University, Munich) Hull)
The International Monetary Fund Non-Governmental Organizations in
Politics of Conditional Lending Global Politics
by James Raymond Vreeland (Yale by Peter Willetts (City University,
University) London)
Group of7/8 Multilateralism in the South
by Hugo Dobson (University of An Analysis
Sheffield) by Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner
(City CollegeofNew York)
The World Economic Forum
by Geoffrey Allen Pigman The European Union
(Bennington College) by Clive Archer (Manchester
Metropolitan University)
The International Committee ofthe
Red Cross The International Labour
AUnique Humanitarian Actor Organization
by David P. Forsythe (University of by Steve Hughes (University of
Nebraska) and Barbara Ann Rieffer- Newcastle)
Flanagan (Central Washington
University)
The Commonwealth(s) and Global The World Trade Organization
Governance by Bernard Hoekman (World Bank)
by Timothy Shaw (Royal Roads and Petros Mavroidis (Columbia
University) University)
The Organization for Security and The International Organization for
Co-operation in Europe Standardization and the Global
by David J. Galbreath (University of Economy
Aberdeen) Setting Standards
by Craig Murphy (Wellesley College)
UNHCR and JoAnne Yates (Massachusetts
The Politics and Practice of Refugee Institute ofTechnology)
Protection Into the Twenty First
Century The International Olympic Committee
by Gil Loescher (University of by Jean-Loup Chappelet (IDHEAP
Oxford), James Milner (University of Swiss Graduate School ofPublic
Oxford), and Alexander Betts Administration) and Brenda Kübler-
(University ofOxford) Mabbott
The World Health Organization
by Kelley Lee (London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
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The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
The Enduring Alliance
Julian Lindley-French
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Contents
Foreword x
List of Acronyms xiii
Introduction 1
1 AWorld Gone Mad: 9/11 and Iraq 7
2 Facing the Enemy 20
3 Coping with the Allies 39
4 Strategic Vacation 57
5 The Search for a New Strategic Consensus 74
6 NATO Today 87
7 The Past, Present and Future of NATO 106
Appendix 119
Notes 127
Bibliography and Further Reading 137
Index 143