Mobilizing an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, this book reviews the history and consequences of NATOs post-Cold War enlargement into Central and Eastern Europe. It offers a nuanced discussion of the merits and drawbacks of NATO enlargement across the different actors involved and compares the results of the policy against potential alternatives that were not chosen. Particular attention is given to NATO enlargements influence on the course of U.S. foreign policy, democracy and security in Central and Eastern Europe, NATOs own development as a political and military institution, and relations with China and Russia (including the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War). Written for an engaged audience, the book is designed to appeal to students, researchers, and policymakers alike while offering both policy insights and avenues for future scholarship.
1. Evaluating NATO enlargement: scholarly debates, policy implications, and roads not taken.- Part I. Foreign Policy and Strategy Debates.- 2. Patterns of Continuity in NATOs Long History.- 3. NATO as a Political Alliance: Continuities and Legacies in the Enlargement Debates of the 1990s.- 4. NATO Enlargement and US Foreign Policy: Origins and Consequences.- 5. Myths and Realities of Putinism and NATO Expansion.- Part II. Great Power Relations.- 6. NATO Enlargement and US Grand Strategy: A Net Assessment.- 7. NATO Enlargement: Evaluating Its Consequences in Russia.- 8. The Tragedy of US-Russian Relations: NATO Centrality and the Revisionists Spiral.- 9. China Views NATO: Beijings Concerns About Transatlantic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.- Part III. European Security.- 10. Thank Goodness For NATO Enlargement.- 11. Good For Democracy? Evidence from the 2004 NATO Expansion.- 12. Ukraines Bid to Join NATO: Re-evaluating Enlargement inl³X
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