NATO's Return to Europe: Engaging Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond

Their product deserves the close attention of policy makers and teachers of international relations." Lawrence S. Kaplan, Emeritus Director of the Lyman L. Rebecca Moore and Damon Coletta have masterfully presented a vitally important resource a must read for practitioners, scholars, and students alike a must read resource for the study of international institutions, security, and American foreign and defense policy. Meanwhile, new pressures for NATO's to focus on collective defense raise questions about the viability of NATO's role in projecting stability outside of Europe, as it has done in Afghanistan, and engaging in the spread of liberal western values. Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies, Kent State University"Even those skeptical of NATO's push east will find much value in this excellent compendium of essays on the contemporary challenges facing the allianc

NATO had become an international security facilitator, a crisis-manager even outside Europe, and a liberal democratic club as much as a mutual-defense organization. This volume places rapid-fire events in theoretical perspective and will be useful to foreign policy students, scholars, and practitioners alike.. While a renewed emphasis on collective defense is clearly a priority, this volume's contributors caution against an overcorrection, which would leave the alliance too inwardly focused, play into Russia's hand, and exacerbate regional fault lines always just below the surface at NATO. NATO's 2010 Strategic Concept officially broadened the alliance's mission beyond collective defense, reflecting a peaceful Europe and changes in alliance activities. However, Russia's re-entry into great power politics has changed NATO's strategic calculus.Russia's aggressive annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its ongoing military support for Ukrainian separatists dramatically altered the strategic environment and called into question the liberal European security order. States bordering Russia, many of which are now NATO members, are worried, and the alliance is divided over assessments of Russia's behavior.  Against the backdrop of Russia's new assertiveness, an international group of scholars exam

Rebecca R. He coedited American Defense Policy, 8th Edition, authored Trusted Guardian: Information Sharing and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance, and is editor of the journal Space & Defense. Moore is a professor of political science at Concordia College. . She is the author of NATO's New Missio