NATO's European Allies

The question of burden sharing has always been important in NATO with an acute relevance today as the US will cut its defence budget over a ten-year period and is no longer automatically willing to lead military operations. This volume considers Europe's role in political force for the future exploring eight European case studies.

"The first thing that should be said [about this book] is that it represents a remarkably coherent set of essays that bear all the hallmarks of tight and effective editorial control. It poses the central question of what role Europe can play in regional and global security and defence, and couches its analysis in terms of both military ability and the political willingness to use force. Above and beyond this, it seeks explanations of Europe's ability to play such a role, both at the international level and domestically, in the form of politics, ideology, military and strategic culture, and military capacity." - International Affairs

Autorentext
YVES BOYER Professor at the ?cole polytechnique, France CHRISTOPHER COKER Professor of International Relations at The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK DAMON COLETTA Professor of Political Science at The United States Air Force Academy, USA GENERAL SVERRE DIESEN Former Chief of Defence of Norway. He is a graduate of the Norwegian Military Academy (1979), Norwegian Army Staff College I and II (1986 88); and Staff College Camberley, UK (1990 SEAN KAY Professor of Politics and Government, Chair of International studies Ohio Weslean University, and Associate, Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, USA DAVID GARCIA Professor of International Relations, Department of International Studies, at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain TAMAS MAGYARICS Hungarian Ambassador to Ireland MAREK PIETRAS Professor of International Relations at the Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University in Lublin, Poland PATRICK PORTER Reader in Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, UK MIKKEL VEDBY Rasmussen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark where he is the director of the Centre for Military Studies BENJAMIN SCHREER Deputy Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) and Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, Australia ASLE TOJE Lecturer at the Political Science Department, University of Oslo, Norway ØYVIND ØSTERUD Professor at the Department of PoliticalScience at the University of Oslo, and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College

Inhalt
Contents Acknowledgments About the authors List of Tables Introduction: Will Europe lead in NATO?; J.H.Matlary & M.Petersson PART I: DETERMINANTS OF THE USE OF FORCE From Mars to Venus? European Use of Force in a Historical Perspective; M.Petersson A Farewell to Arms: Europe's meritocracy and the demilitarization of Europe; C.Coker Towards an Affordable European Defence and Security Policy? The Case for Extensive European Force Integration; S.Diesen Strategy, Risk and Threat Perceptions in NATO; Ø.Østerud & A.Toje PART II: APPLICATION: CASE STUDIES No More Free-Riding: The Political Economy of Military Power and the Transatlantic Relationship; S.Kay Between Theory and Practice: Britain and the Use of Force; P.Porter France: The State with Strategic Vision; Y.Boyer The Reluctant Ally? Germany, NATO, and the Use of Force; B.Schreer Willing and Able? Spanish Statecraft as Brokerage; D.Coletta & D.Garcia Poland's Participation in NATO Operations; M.Pietras Hungary in NATO: The Case of a Half Empty Glass; T.Magyarics Punching Above Its Weight: Denmark's Legitimate Peripheral Participation in NATO's Wars; M.V.Rasmussen Norway: Militarily Able but Politically Divided; J.H.Matlary Index