Nato in the 60th Anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty.

A cura di: Andrea Carati, Carlo Frappi

Nato in the 60th Anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty.

Challenges and strategic divergences from national perspectives

The aim of this book is to assess the challenges to NATO enlargement and transformation, offering national perspectives on the Alliance’s evolution. Accordingly, the analysis focuses on three different levels – old members, new members and partners – in order to provide an appraisal of convergences and divergences on NATO’s changing character and responsibilities.

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Pages: 208

ISBN: 9788856819779

Edizione:1a edizione 2009

Publisher code: 1460.71

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After 60 years of existence, the Atlantic Alliance remains the most reliable security organization for the Euro-Atlantic security. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has succeeded in adapting itself to the new international scenario. Starting from the '90s, NATO has undergone a deep evolution, both in qualitative and quantitative terms. On the one hand, the Alliance transformation consisted in the update of strategic goals, the development of new military means and new partnership frameworks. On the other hand, from being an occasional choice the enlargement has turned out to be an enduring open door policy. Over the course of the last decade, it brought about the admission of twelve new members.
The NATO's evolution processes implied a shift from a traditional military pact to a new cooperative organization and from a defensive posture to a new expeditionary role. The depth of these processes entailed a reconsideration of the Alliance raison d'être involving new political and security challenges. These, in turn, have implied different and in some cases contradictory responses from the Allies.
The aim of this book is to assess the challenges to NATO enlargement and transformation, offering national perspectives on the Alliance's evolution. Accordingly, the analysis focuses on three different levels - old members, new members and partners - in order to provide an appraisal of convergences and divergences on NATO's changing character and responsibilities.

Andrea Carati is Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) Programme on Security and Strategic Studies.
Carlo Frappi is Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) Programme on Caucasus and Central Asia.



Abbreviations
Preface
Andrea Carati, Transformation and Enlargement: Costs of NATO's Survival
(Nato: an Alliance sui generis; Enlargement and Transformation: Costs and Opportunities; NATO Put to the Test: Military Interventions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan; Conclusions)
Carlo Frappi, Transformation and Enlargement: Challenges for NATO in the Wider Black Sea Area (Introduction; NATO and the Wider Black Sea Area; Challenges Arising for NATO within the WBS Region; Needs and Pitfalls in Developing a Comprehensive Regional Strategy; Conclusions )
Arturo Varvelli, Italy and NATO: New Threats, Old Internal Contraints and More Obligations
(Italian Security and National Interests during the Bipolar Age; Italy and NATO after 1989: External Threats and Domestic Limits; The Alliance's Transformation: Italy and NATO's "Crisis Management"; NATO's Enlargements and Italy; Present Problems: Italy's Interests and Choices; Conclusions. The Alliance's Future)
Joseph R. Wood, NATO at 60: an American Perspective
(The End of the Cold War; The Clinton Years; The Bush Years; Afghanistan; Broader Questions of Belief; NATO Enlargement; A Dangerous Global Scene; A Better 60th Anniversary)
Jean-Sylvestre Montgrenier, NATO at the Heart of French-American Relations Strategies, Geopolitical Relations and Security Stakes
(At the Origins of NATO; France's Withdrawal from NATO's Integrated Military Structure; "New NATO" and Oppositions between Paris and Washington; Key Perspectives and Conclusions)
S. Gulden Ayman, NATO's Transformation and Turkey
(Nature of Turkey's Intentions; Threats to Turkish Security; US-Turkish Relations; NATO Enlargement and Turkey; Complementarities between the EU-NATO and Turkey's Challenges; Georgian and Ukrainian Membership; Missile Defense; Out of Area Involvement; Towards a New Concept; Global NATO; Conclusions)
Stefan Bielanski, Poland in NATO (1999-2009): between Historical Memory and Challenges of the Future
(Nato in the Polish Historical Memory of the "Cold War" Period and the Transitions after 1989; Access (1990s) and Polish Decade in NATO (1999-2009): Facts and Events with Their Interpretations Accession to NATO; Decade of Poland's NATO Membership; Poland and the Concept of the Euro-Atlantic Zone; Poland and the Further Process of Enlarging NATO)
Paul Duta, Evolution of Relations between NATO and Romania
(Romania after 2 April 2004; Romania and Poland - the Main Pillars of "The New Europe"; The Doctrinaire Framework and the Reform of Security Structures; The Objectives for Romania as NATO Member State; What Romania Expects from NATO Nowadays and in the Future)
Tedo Japaridze, The Geopolitics of Georgian Security: NATO's Unfinished Business in the Southern Caucasus
(A Methodological Inquiry; Knocking on NATO's Door; Why Georgia Needs NATO and NATO Needs Georgia?; NATO and the Building of a Broader Europe: Time to be More than just "Visible Mais Absent"; A Role for NATO's Forward Engagement; New Threats Require New Mechanisms; NATO and the Future of Georgian Democracy
Serena Giusti, Tomislava Penkova, Ukraine in NATO: an Inconsistent Recipe for a Troublesome Country
(From the Soviet Union to Where?; The Evolution of NATO-Ukraine Relationship; Crimea: Another Obstacle on the Way to NATO; Defence Reform's Pace and Shortcomings; A Reluctant Public Opinion; Conclusions
Sergei Medvedev, Igor Tomashov, NATO and Russia in the Post-Wall Europe
(The Early 1990s: a Partnership that Wasn't; The Mid-1990s: End of Illusions, Start of Debate; Kosovo: Testing the New World Order; The Early 2000s: Re-establishing Partnership?; Mid- and Late 2000s: the Return of Geopolitics; Overview of the Institutional Forms of Cooperation; Conclusions)
Contributors

Serie: Società e politica

Subjects: Political and Diplomatic History

Level: Scholarly Research

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