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Gardner explores the global ramifications of the NATO-Russian relationship. He argues that NATO enlargement into Central Europe risks the overextension of NATO's political consensus and could provoke Russia and other states that do not expect to become full members of the alliance. He concludes by proposing an alternative system of security for the region.
Gardner explores the global ramifications of the NATO-Russian relationship. He examines NATO's Partnership for Peace initiative as it relates to Russia, and he argues that NATO risks provoking Russia and other states that do not expect to become full members of the alliance. He contends that if NATO and Russia cannot reach a compromise over a new system of security in Central and Eastern Europe, then Russia could adopt an increasingly assertive Eurasian stance by more closely aligning with potentially anti-Western states such as Belarus, China, India, Iraq, and Iran. Likewise, the possibility of a renewed division of Europe cannot be ruled out.
Gardner asserts that it is absolutely necessary to draw Russia into a concerted relationship with the United States and the European Union. He concludes by formulating a viable system of cooperative-collective security for all Central and Eastern European states backed by conjoint NATO, European, and Russian security guarantees. This is a thoughtful and provocative analysis of great interest to policymakers and students of international relations and contemporary defense issues.
List of contents
General Introduction
NATO and Russia: The Partnership for Peace
Europe: Widening With or Without Deepening?
NATO, Congress, and Central and Eastern Europe
Fragmentation of the Russian Federation
The Splintering of the Soviet Empire
Russia and Eurasia
Jeopardizing Arms Reductions
Former Yugoslavia: The Testing Grounds of Cooperative-Collective Security
A Critique of Three Approaches to NATO Enlargement
Strengthening International Regimes
Toward Cooperative-Collective Security
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the author
HALL GARDNER is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Affairs and Politics at The American University of Paris. He is the author of
Surviving the Millennium: American Global Strategy, the Collapse of the Soviet Empire, and the Question of Peace (Praeger, 1994).
