Overview
- Develops a more robust understanding of the US role in NATO
- Argues the causes of NATO’s persistence after the Cold War
- Provides deeper historical and political understandings of post-Cold War conflict engagements
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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This book takes a new approach to answering the question of how NATO survived after the Cold War by examining its complex relationship with the United States. A closer look at major NATO engagements in the post-Cold War era, including in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, reveals how the US helped comprehensively reshape the alliance. In every conflict, there was tension between the United States and its allies over mission leadership, political support, legal precedents, military capabilities, and financial contributions. The author explores why allied actions resulted in both praise and criticism of NATO’s contributions from American policymakers, and why despite all of this and the growing concern over the alliance’s perceived shortcomings the United States continued to support the alliance. In addition to demonstrating the American influence on the alliance, this works demonstrates why NATO’s survival is beneficial to US interests.
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“Julie Garey’s book arrives at an important time to reflect on post-Cold War and post-9/11 periods in the alliance, acknowledge the potential of both the United States and NATO, and draw les‐ sons for the future. Students and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic would do well to read it.” (Seth A. Johnston, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, October, 2021)
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Julie Garey is an Assistant Teaching Professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The US Role in NATO’s Survival After the Cold War
Authors: Julie Garey
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13675-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13674-1Published: 28 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13677-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13675-8Published: 14 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 259
Topics: International Security Studies, Conflict Studies, US Politics, International Organization