NATO for a New Century - (Humanistic Perspectives on International Relations) by Carl C Hodge (Hardcover)

About the Book

NATO's military interventions in the Balkans have 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. Providing a well-rounded study of continuing change in the contemporary North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this book is constructed around eight essays by European security experts analyzing challenges confronting the Atlantic Alliance as a military alliance and as a collective security organization dealing simultaneously with deterrence, enlargement, and regional crisis intervention. It is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, American foreign policy, European studies, security and strategic studies.

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 chemical weapons. Also discussed is the matter of NATO's further enlargement and the question of whether this offers more or less security to the alliance membership, as are the emerging tensions between the EU and NATO security regimes.

Book Synopsis

NATO's military interventions in the Balkans have 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. Providing a well-rounded study of continuing change in the contemporary North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this book is constructed around eight essays by European security experts analyzing challenges confronting the Atlantic Alliance as a military alliance and as a collective security organization dealing simultaneously with deterrence, enlargement, and regional crisis intervention. It is intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, American foreign policy, European studies, security and strategic studies.

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 chemical weapons. Also discussed is the matter of NATO's further enlargement and the question of whether this offers more or less security to the alliance membership, as are the emerging tensions between the EU and NATO security regimes.

Review Quotes

?[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

"ÝT¨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

"[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

About the Author

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).