The European Neutrals and NATO - Non-alignment, Partnership, Membership?

This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO. Neutrality and alliance membership are fundamentally incompatible, but through the vehicle of NATO's post-Cold War partnerships the European neutral states and NATO have found a way to bridge this gap and cooperate with one another. Based on case studies of Austria, Finland, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland written by leading experts, this book explores the detail of each country's relationship with NATO, the factors shaping those relationships and whether any of these states are likely to abandon neutrality and join NATO. The book also contributes to broader work on foreign policy by exploring different explanations of the European neutral states' foreign and security policy choices.
This book will be of interest to scholars of the European neutral states, NATO and European security, as well as to those interested in understanding the dynamics behind states foreign policy choices.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: The European Neutral State - Andrew Cottey.- Chapter 2: European Neutrality in Historical Perspective - Andrew Cottey.- Chapter 3: NATO's Partnerships - Andrew Cottey.- Chapter 4: 'The Allied Partner': Sweden and NATO through the Realist-Idealist Lens - Magnus Petersson.- Chapter 5: Finland and NATO: Strategic Choices and Identity Conceptions - Tuomas Forsberg.- Chapter 6: Austria: Engaged Neutrality - Heinz Gärtner.- Chapter 7: Ireland and NATO: A Distinctly Low Profile Partnership - Andrew Cottey.- Chapter 8: Switzerland and NATO: From Non-Relationship to Cautious Partnership - Christian Nünlist.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew Cottey is Senior Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration, Department of Government, University College Cork, Ireland. His research focuses on European security and his publications include Security in 21st Century Europe (Palgrave Macmillan).

Zusammenfassung

Offers first detailed comparative analysis of the partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO
Explores different explanations of the European neutral states' foreign and security policy choices 
Analysis is supported by case studies written by leading experts 

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Andre Cottey (Herausgeber), Andrew Cottey (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9781349955442
• ISBN: 978-1-349-95544-2
• Seiten: 237
• Abmessung: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 334 g
• Illustration: XIII, 237 p. 1 illus. in color.
• Serien: New Security Challenges; New Security Challenges
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politisches System; Integration, Europa, B, Krieg und Verteidigung, Europe, European Politics, Warfare & defence, Political Science and International Studies, cooperative security, Allies, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Europe—Politics and government, defence, Neutrality, Peacekeeping, Partnership for Peace, collective security, EU membership, neutral identity