Download or read book From Madrid to Brussels Perspectives on NATO Enlargement written by Stephen Blank and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to explore the effects that NATO enlargement will have on U.S. policy and the future evolution of European security, a roundtable was conducted by the Strategic Studies Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. This monograph illuminates problems relating to those states which either cannot or do not want to join NATO at this time as well as the impact of enlargement on NATO as an alliance system, on U.S. foreign and defense policy, and on the European neutrals.
Download or read book From Madrid to Brussels written by Stephen J. Blank and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have even thought about the consequences of the Madrid decision for these states. Rather, the debate, such as it has been, remains confined to an increasingly sterile discussion of the pros and cons of enlargement, especially with reference to supposed U.S. or Russian interests. Most of the public U.S. statements, apart from those of the Clinton administration, have been negative, as has been the almost unanimous Russian reaction. While the debate has the virtue of forcing both sides to state openly the premises of their policies; it also has led to a great deal of polemics by partisans of both sides in the debate. Few of those opposing NATO enlargement seem interested in discovering and then analyzing what Russia wants in terms of European security or what European states, either neutrals or aspirant members, want from Western Europe and the United States. Likewise, much of the discussion among those favoring enlargement remains restricted to a discussion of NATO as a force for democratic consolidation rather than an alliance for common defense. That focus obscures many of the realities of international affairs in today's Europe and tends to obscure the hard questions of strategy and defense. In order to explore the second and third order effects that enlargement will have on European and North Atlantic security, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) convened a roundtable in Washington, DC, on January 27, 1997. SSI and CSIS invited analysts from several European states and American experts on Central and Eastern Europe to analyze how enlargement will affect U.S. policy, the face of European security, and the future of the states that are likely not to be invited to join NATO in the near future. This volume is a representative selection of the papers presented at that roundtable. Stephen Cambone demonstrates how the arguments in favor of NATO's enlargement and their hidden premise that enlargement will so stabilize Europe as to lessen demands on the United States to be a security provider and to maintain a daily presence in Central and East European affairs are misplaced. While Cambone strongly favors enlargement, he rightly notes that its logical next step is much greater and more detailed U.S. involvement, at least politically, if not militarily, in Central and Eastern Europe's new and expanded security agenda. As it is, Washington is busy devising Baltic security programs, trying to lead Bosnia's reconstruction, guaranteeing Ukraine's integrity, and leading the negotiations with Moscow on all issues of European security. The notion that enlargement means that collective security has dawned in Europe and that the United States can relax overlooks the fact that Washington, in order to maintain and reaffirm its central position in Europe and to prevent a renationalization of European security agendas, must become more involved in these and other questions that are sure to arise after enlargement begins. One area where the United States and NATO must become more involved with Central and Eastern European candidates for NATO is civil-military relations.
Download or read book The Future of NATO Expansion written by Zoltan Barany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999 three East-Central European states (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) gained membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Professor Barany argues that, once it began, the Alliance should continue the enlargement process. Nevertheless he maintains that only states that satisfy NATO's membership criteria should be allowed to join. Through an extensive analysis of four countries, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia who, at the time of the book's original publication in 2003 were NATO aspirants, Barany demonstrates that they were in several important respects unprepared for membership and that there was no pressing reason for NATO's haste. Barany argues that while NATO should be clear that its doors remain open to qualified candidates, the Alliance should hold off further expansion until prospective members will become assets rather than liabilities.
Download or read book European Security and NATO Enlargement a View from Central Europe written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Security and NATO Enlargement written by Stephen Blank and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATO.s enlargement represents a watershed event in European security. It closes the so-called .post-Cold War. epoch that began with the fall of the Soviet empire and opens the way to a new stage in European and American history. The tendencies that are now pushing Europe towards greater integration have received a new injection of energy. NATO has not only proven itself the only truly effective security provider among European institutions, it has also shown itself to be the moving force behind Europe.s other security agencies, particularly the European Union (EU). After NATO decided to take in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland at its Madrid Conference in July 1997, the European Union, meeting at Amsterdam, decided to begin accession talks with those three states, Estonia, Cyprus, and Slovenia. Thus concurrent and coinciding waves of integration throughout the continent are going to transform Europe.s security map and agenda beyond recognition. But this does not mean either that past history is now utterly irrelevant or that Europe has attained a kind of security Nirvana. The Bosnian crisis, and to a lesser degree the Albanian crisis of 1997, as well as the recent problems in Kosovo show that many challenges confront Europe, and that Europe is reluctant to confront them.1 Insofar as out-of-area issues in the Middle East are concerned, the Iraqi crises of 1997-98 demonstrated that Europe remains divided, unable to forge a common security policy for those issues in that region or to assume a leadership position in the resolution of international crises.
Download or read book NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States written by Stephen Blank and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATO's enlargement has brought it to the borders of the Baltic states who covet membership in NATO. However, admitting them into NATO is one of the most difficult problems for the Alliance because of Russia's unconditional opposition to such action and because of NATO's own internal divisions on this issue. Nonetheless, a new regime or system of security for the entire Baltic region must now be on the U.S. and European agenda. The key players in such a process are Russia, Germany, and the United States. Their actions will determine the limits of the possible in constructing Baltic security for the foreseeable future. Dr. Stephen Blank presents a detailed and extensive analysis of these three governments' views on Baltic and European security. Their views on regional security are materially shaped by and influence their larger views on their mutual relations and policy towards Europe. Their views also demonstrate the complexity of the issues involved in constructing Baltic, not to mention European, security. But because NATO enlargement is the most serious foreign policy and defense issue before Congress now, such an analysis can illuminate much of what is happening in the NATO enlargement process and why it has taken its current shape.
Download or read book Defense Reform in Central Europe and the Challenges of NATO Membership written by Brad A. Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of communism in Central Europe, the former Soviet satellite states have sought closer relations with the West. An immediate goal was membership in NATO. To meet the conditions of membership, the former Warsaw Pact members had to make significant reforms within their defense establishments that would meet NATO's interoperability requirements. Despite the incentive of potential NATO membership, the development and implementation of such reforms has been slow. The objective of this study is to answer the research question," Why has defense reform proven so elusive in an environment where key actors agree on the desirability, necessity, and the benefits of its formulation and implementation?"
Download or read book Hierarchy amidst Anarchy written by Katja Weber and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the underlying basis for state participation in cooperative international structures.
Download or read book Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia written by Duk-Ki Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval capabilities in Northwest Asia are instrumental in promoting maritime security interests - helping to build a stable security environment through active participation in regional naval co-operation. This landmark book explores the region's maritime peace and stability, and examines in depth the strategic, military and apolitical issues that underpin any effort to develop maritime co-operation.
Download or read book Visegrad Countries in an Enlarged Trans Atlantic Community written by Martin Brusis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe After NATO Expansion written by Kori Schake and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Debate on NATO Enlargement written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armed Forces and the International Diversities written by Leena Parmar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tthe Contents Includes: 1. Bengal Army And The Raj 2. The Imperial Management 3. Army And The Early British Raj 4. The Bombay Marine 5. Fortifications And Force In Early English East India Company 6. The Frontier Warfare 7. Naval Encounter 8. India And The Indian Ocean 9. Index
Download or read book Ukraine and NATO written by Nienke de Deugd and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of European Union Enlargement written by Frank Schimmelfennig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a key reference text presenting the latest first-rate approaches to the study of European enlargement. Developed and significantly expanded from a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy, this new volume draws on the insights from the recently emerging theoretically-informed literature on the EU's eastern enlargement and complements these studies with original articles that combine a theoretical approach with comparative analyses. These expert contributors focus on the broader theoretical debates and their implications for the enlargement of the EU, as well as placing the enlargement of the EU within the broader context of the expansion of international organisations and the study of institutions in international relations.
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Download or read book The History and Future of Warfare Selections from the Professional Readings in Military Strategy Published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U S Army War College written by Harry Almond and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-23 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Future of Warfare Selections of the Professional Readings in Military Strategy Published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College Legal standards are an important part of military strategic decision making, both as to whether or not to take military action and how military action should be conducted once the decision is made. Insight into the practical and economic application of these standards is at the core of this thought-provoking book. Edited with extensive legal commentary and analysis by two prominent US military lawyers with global experience, The History and Future of Warfare presents a revealing survey of the most significant findings, over a 30-year period, of outstanding military advisers and scholars on the use, control, and conduct of military forces in hostilities. Drawing on the work of the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College--work which has deeply influenced military thinking and doctrine not only in the US but worldwide--this book distills the considered judgment of a generation of commentators on the operational controls that have evolved since the 1960s and been tested and refined in conflicts from Vietnam to Kosova. Collecting 31 essays in ten chapters (with introductory comments to each chapter), the book addresses such specific issues and practical problems as the role of NATO and its enlargement; justifications of the recourse to war, especially the `Weinberger Doctrine'; setting legal controls on new weapons and new military technologies; and the doctrine of peacekeeping and its strategic promise. There are also essays dealing with particular geographical and regional military issues that arise in Russia, China, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, as well as studies of the changing role of the United Nations and the US in the New World Order. The History and Future of Warfare allows international lawyers, defense policymakers and other interested parties to consider in depth serious problems involving the use of military force. Through its clear thinking about legal standards, both existing (such as the Geneva Protocols of December 1977) and proposed, it helps these professionals to resolve issues of improper or unlawful conduct in regard to the use of military force.
