Going Global or Going Nowhere?: NATO’s Role in Contemporary International Security

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Jennifer Medcalf

Going Global or Going Nowhere?

NATO’s Role in Contemporary International Security

Jennifer Medcalf

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English

Verlag Peter Lang
20 September 2008

History of the Americas; Comparative politics; Military administration; Military engineering

This book examines the changing nature and location of NATO’s operations, concentrating on the development of its extra-European interventions. The objectives of the book are twofold. The first is to provide a historical overview of the importance of the out-of-area issue to NATO. The book takes a chronological approach to this and maps the evolution of the debates that took place about NATO’s appropriate response to threats beyond the North Atlantic area from NATO’s founding in 1949 until the present day. The second objective is to assess how successfully NATO has made the transition from being a security actor with regional responsibilities to one that responds to global security threats. The author considers the argument that emerged post-9/11 that the key to ensuring NATO’s future vitality was to expand its geographic area of responsibility to encompass threats occurring both within and beyond the Euro-Atlantic area. This book therefore provides the first detailed examination of the evolution of NATO’s global role and the success with which NATO has adapted to its new responsibilities.

By: Jennifer Medcalf
Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9783039105847
ISBN 10: 3039105841
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 20 September 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Author: Jennifer Medcalf is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath. She was previously Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath. She holds a First Class Honours degree in Modern Languages (French and German) and European Studies and a Ph.D. in Politics, both from the University of Bath.