NATO After 2000 : The Future of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance

Borawski and Young provide a serious analysis of the major issues confronting European-North American relations. They draw detailed attention to the fundamental political and military issues before the Atlantic Alliance. They illustrate that NATO remains essential to Euro-Atlantic security. Only the Atlantic Alliance can bring to bear well-tested military capability under US leadership to promote its members security, interests, and democratic values. However, to remain vital, the Alliance must undertake a serious review of its major purposes: enlargement to the former Warsaw Pact nations, a strategic partnership with Russia, defense against weapons of mass destruction, and a more mature transatlantic relationship drawing on the lessons of the former Yugoslavia. This is an important assessment for policymakers, military planners, scholars, students, and others concerned with current European-American relations. Although NATO grew from the 1948 Brussels Treaty among the Benelux countries, France, and the United Kingdom and intended in part to prevent "a renewal by Germany of an aggressive policy," the Washington Treaty identifies no enemy. Annotation Examines the major issues confronting European-North American relations