This book builds on the six years of hands-on experience that the author had while working in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It provides an overview an

A wide range of contemporary challenges and threats, and their volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity make it necessary to develop a new, flexible an

The central aims of the book is to present, in the form of a collection of papers, a variety of views on NATO from member states “formerly known as new”, an

Spawned by the Cold War, NATO�s existence was justified by Soviet threats to Western Europe. That raison d�être is long gone with the collapse of the Sovie