NATO After 9/11: An Alliance in Continuing Decline

295 Pages·2006·30.17 MB·English

by  Richard E. Rupp (auth.)

NATO after 9/ I I

NATO after 9/ I I
An Alliance in Continuing Decline
Richard E. Rupp
* NATO AFTER 9/11
© Richard E. Rupp, 2006.
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Rupp, Richard E.
NATO after 9/11 :an alliance in continuing decline I Richard E. Rupp.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization-History-21st century. I. Title.
UA646.3.R86 2006
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Contents
Tables and Charts Vll
Copyright Permissions IX
List of Acronyms XI
Acknowledgments X111
Introduction 1
1. National Interests and Military Alliances:
The Cold War NATO 23
2. The Turbulent Nineties: NATO Reforms and
Transatlantic Storms 51
3. September 11,2001: A New Beginning for NATO? 93
4. An Alliance in Name Only: NATO and Iraq 121
5. Afghanistan: NATO's Last Hurrah? 153
6. NATO in 2006: An Alliance in Decline 179
Conclusion 209
Notes 225
Bibliography 261
Index 275

Tables and Charts
Tables
2.1 EU and US defense expenditures in 2000 87
3.1 Europeans See the United States Going It Alone 113
3.2 Europeans Want More Distance from the United States 113
4.1 Preferences on Using U.S. Troops to Invade Iraq 124
4.2 Coalition Forces in Iraq Summer: 2004 144
5.1 NATO in Afghanistan: February 2005 177
Charts
3.1 Perceptions of Threats 110
4.1 Do you Approve or Disapprove of the Way U.S. President
George Bush is Handling International Policy? 143
C.1 Does U.S. Foreign Policy Consider Others' Interests? 213
C.2 Percent of Europeans Who Believe that Europe
Should Acquire More Military Power to be Able to Protect
Its Interests Separately from the United States 216
C.3 Disapproval of President Bush's International Policies 218

Copyright Permissions
Rupp, Richard. 2002. "NATO Enlargement: All Aboard? Destination
Unknown." East European Quarterly. 36 (Fall): 341-363. (Excerpts
reproduced with publisher's permission.)
Rupp, Richard. 2000. "NATO 1949 and NATO 2000: From Collective
Defense Toward Collective Security." The Journal of Strategic Studies.
23 (September): 154-176. (Excerpts reproduced with publisher's permis
sion: http://www.tandf.co.uk)
Rupp, Richard. 2000. "NATO 1949 and NATO 2000: From Collective
Defense Toward Collective Security." In Ted Galen Carpenter (ed.),
NATO Enters the 21st Century. London: Frank Cass Publishers.
(Excerpts reproduced with publisher's permission.)
Rupp, Richard. 1998. "The Western Powers and the Balkan War: Clashing
Security Interests and Institutional Paralysis." Southeastern Political Review
26 (September): 611-634. (This material originally appeared in Vol. 26
Issue 3 of the Southeastern Political Review. Excerpts reproduced with
publisher's permission.)
Rupp, Richard. 1998. "Cooperation, International Organizations, and
Multilateral Interventions in the Post-Cold War Era: Lessons Learned
from the Gulf War, the Balkans, Somalia, and Cambodia." UCLA Journal
of International Law and Foreign Affairs 3 (Spring/Summer): 183-222.
(Originally published in 3 U.C.L.A. J. Int'L & For. Aff. 183 (1998).
Excerpts reproduced with publisher's permission.)
Rupp, Richard. 1998. "The Balkan Conflict: The Test Case for European
Security Cooperation." In M. McKenzie and P. Loedel (eds.), The
Promise and Reality of European Security Cooperation: States, Interests,
& Institutions. Connecticut: Praeger Publishing. (Excerpts reproduced
with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.)
Jolyon Howorth and John T.S. Keeler (eds.), Defending Europe: The EU,
NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003. (Table 2.1 reproduced with the permission of Palgrave
Macmillan.)