NATO Enlargement: Illusions and RealityTed Galen Carpenter, Barbara Conry Cato Institute, 1998 - 283 Seiten The decision to expand NATO eastward is a fateful venture that has received surprisingly little public attention. Advocates of enlargement insist that the step will foster cooperation, consolidate democracy, and promote stability throughout Europe. But the contributors to this volume conclude that an expanded NATO is a dubious, potentially disastrous idea. Instead of healing the wounds of the Cold War, it threatens to create a new division of Europe and undermine friendly relations with Russia. Even worse, it will establish expensive, dangerous, and probably unsustainable security obligations for the United States. |
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... European members of NATO are no better . The West European countries have slashed their military spending , in some cases at a rate even greater than that of the United States , since the end of the Cold War . There is no evidence that ...
... European members of NATO are no better . The West European countries have slashed their military spending , in some cases at a rate even greater than that of the United States , since the end of the Cold War . There is no evidence that ...
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... European states . Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty obligates the United States and its allies to help a fellow ... Europe , Belarus is a political volcano waiting to erupt . There is considerable danger in having the United States ...
... European states . Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty obligates the United States and its allies to help a fellow ... Europe , Belarus is a political volcano waiting to erupt . There is considerable danger in having the United States ...
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... Europe today resembles that in Western Europe two or three centu- ries ago , with all the attendant turbulence . Clinton's attempt to recreate Washington's West European policy of the late 1940s in a volatile Eastern Europe is ...
... Europe today resembles that in Western Europe two or three centu- ries ago , with all the attendant turbulence . Clinton's attempt to recreate Washington's West European policy of the late 1940s in a volatile Eastern Europe is ...
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... Europe may create annoyances , but they will not affect European stability or the overall configuration of power on the Continent . In that vein , Britain's ambassador to the United States , John Kerr , admitted with surprising candor ...
... Europe may create annoyances , but they will not affect European stability or the overall configuration of power on the Continent . In that vein , Britain's ambassador to the United States , John Kerr , admitted with surprising candor ...
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... Europe . In the post - Cold War era , however , neither rationale applies . He argues that in the absence of a major hegemonic threat in Europe , there are no interests that merit risking U.S. blood and treasure . European security ...
... Europe . In the post - Cold War era , however , neither rationale applies . He argues that in the absence of a major hegemonic threat in Europe , there are no interests that merit risking U.S. blood and treasure . European security ...
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4 Why Die for Gdansk? NATO Enlargement and American Security Interests | 53 |
5 NATO Enlargement and the Inevitable Costs of the American Empire | 71 |
Potential Conflicts Involving the Czech Republic Hungary and Poland | 85 |
7 The Perils of Victory | 103 |
12 A Strategy to Unite Rather Than Divide Europe | 177 |
13 The Errors of Expansive Realism | 187 |
To What End? | 199 |
15 Europes Unhealthy Security Dependence | 209 |
16 A Strong OSCE for a Secure Europe | 223 |
17 Political Alternatives to NATO Expansion | 233 |
18 Beyond NATO | 243 |
The Debate over Collective Security | 253 |
Coping with Act II | 121 |
9 Russias Search for Identity | 129 |
An Illusory Solution | 143 |
The Risks of Expansion | 159 |
Contributors | 267 |
Index | 273 |
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Seite 259 - The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of whom they consist.
Seite 260 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.
Seite 189 - Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island: Who rules the World-Island commands the World.
Seite 86 - I hope you will understand that your NATO allies have not had a chance to consider whether they have an obligation to protect Turkey against the Soviet Union if Turkey takes a step which results in Soviet intervention without the full consent and understanding of its NATO Allies.
Seite 37 - NATO reiterate that they have no intention, no plan and no reason to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of new members, nor any need to change any aspect of NATO's nuclear posture or nuclear policy — and do not foresee any future need to do so. This subsumes the fact that NATO has decided that it has no intention, no plan, and no reason...
Seite 234 - Russian forces and nuclear weapons from newly independent states; negotiation and adaptation of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty; and the evolution and strengthening of European security and economic institutions, including the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the Western European Union.
Seite 183 - policeman," by assuming responsibility for righting every wrong, we will retain the pre-eminent responsibility for addressing selectively those wrongs which threaten not only our interests, but those of our allies or friends, or which could seriously unsettle international relations.
Seite 187 - All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location, and avoid originality. It may be boring, but one has to know where he is.
Seite 130 - We were perfectly aware that a possible warlike attitude of Austria-Hungary against Serbia might bring Russia upon the field, and that it might therefore involve us in a war, in accordance with our duty as allies.
Seite 143 - Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Co-operation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation was signed, which provided Russia with equal status with the Alliance in peacekeeping operations and enhanced its consultative rights.