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NATO enlargement reflects a failure on the part of policymakers to recognize new strategic realities--and that failure could have dangerous unintended consequences.
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These 19 short articles lambast the prospect of expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) as unnecessary, costly, provocative to Russia, dangerous to security and stability, and likely to entangle the US in Central European squabbles. Taken from a 1997 Cato Institute conference, readers will not be surprised to see recurrent themes of isolationism, "America First" skepticism about any US alliance activity that might involve military intervention, and libertarianism. The authors are well known, articulate, and passionate about the cause of narrowing American national interests and keeping American leadership from expanding the membership and role of a putatively obsolete defense/deterrent alliance. Authors include Cato libertarians; ex-Reagan, Nixon, and Department of State staffers; members of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Center for Defense Information, and RAND; former editors of high-profile journals such as Foreign Affairs and National Interest; and a few professors. Narrow-scope realists join forces with isolationist idealists to argue that there is no security threat to the US in Europe; that NATO enlargement will create one by alienating Russia; and that the US cannot nor should attempt hegemony by way of a NATO front for US imperialism. While the articles are well written, the book would benefit from fewer but more in-depth articles and a few essays representing the other side. The layers of repetitious analysis capture key arguments but lack development. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. L. S. Hulett; Knox College
目录
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Notes | p. 13 |
Part I Problems of Cost and Credibility | p. 15 |
1 Strategic Evasions and the Drive for Nato Enlargement | p. 17 |
Notes | p. 28 |
2 Nato's Incredible Shrinking Defense | p. 31 |
Notes | p. 39 |
3 Nato Expansion: the Triumph of Policy Incoherence | p. 41 |
Notes | p. 51 |
4 Why Die for Gdansk? Nato Enlargement and American Security Interests | p. 53 |
Notes | p. 67 |
5 Nato Enlargement and the Inevitable Costs of the American Empire | p. 71 |
Notes | p. 81 |
6 New Problems for Nato: Potential Conflicts Involving the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland | p. 85 |
Notes | p. 97 |
Part II Nato Enlargement and Russia's Relations with the West | p. 101 |
7 The Perils of Victory | p. 103 |
Notes | p. 117 |
8 Nato Enlargement: Coping with Act II | p. 121 |
9 Russia's Search for Identity | p. 129 |
Notes | p. 140 |
10 The Nato-Russia Accord: an Illusory Solution | p. 143 |
Part III Ins and Outs: Creating a New Division of Europe | p. 157 |
11 Nato's Manifest Destiny: the Risks of Expansion | p. 159 |
Notes | p. 175 |
12 A Strategy to Unite Rather Than Divide Europe | p. 177 |
Notes | p. 184 |
13 The Errors of Expansive Realism | p. 187 |
Notes | p. 197 |
14 Nato Enlargement: to What End? | p. 199 |
Part IV Alternatives to an Enlarged Nato | p. 207 |
15 Europe's Unhealthy Security Dependence | p. 209 |
Notes | p. 220 |
16 A Strong Osce for a Secure Europe | p. 223 |
17 Political Alternatives to Nato Expansion | p. 233 |
18 Beyond Nato | p. 243 |
19 James Madison Vs. Madeleine Albright: the Debate Over Collective Security | p. 253 |
Notes | p. 264 |
Contributors | p. 267 |
Index | p. 273 |