NATO Strategy in a New World Order
Abstract
This study examines the new strategy that is slowly taking shape within the alliance, and the role that NATO is most likely to play within a larger European security regime where responsibilities may be shared with other European multination organizations--the European Community (EC), the Western European Union (WEU), and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), for example. These and other organizations, the author contends, may compete, evolve, engage in cooperative ventures, even merge. Their collective challenge is to accommodate Europe's emergence from a U.S.-dominated security umbrella (NATO) while maintaining an American presence in a new political- economic-security order. The outcome will be determined through a slow, iterative process driven by either declining or resurgent threats, and compromises among states over divergent domestic agendas, limited willingness to relinquish national sovereignty, suspicions between large and small states, and varying commitments to the American trans-Atlantic relationship.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 10, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA235993
Entities
People
- Gary L. Guertner
Organizations
- United States Army War College