Exploring NATO's post-Cold War determination to support democracy abroad, this book addresses the alliance's adaptation to the new illiberal backlashes in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Afghanistan after the alleged 'return of history'.
The book engages the question of what has driven NATO to pursue democratisation in face of the significant region-specific challenges and what can explain policy expansion or retrenchment over time. Explaining NATO's adaptation from the perspective of power dynamics that push for international change and historical experience that informs grand strategy allows wider inferences not only about democratisation as a foreign policy strategy but also about the nature of the transatlantic alliance and its relations with a mostly illiberal environment. Larsen offers a theoretical conception of NATO as a patchwork of one hegemonic and several great power interests that converge or diverge in the formulation of common policy, as opposed to NATO as a community of universal values.
This volume will appeal to researchers of transatlantic relations, NATO's functional and geographical expansion, hegemony and great power politics, democracy promotion, lessons of the past, (Neoclassical) Realism, alliance theory, and the crisis of the liberal world order.
Autorentext
Henrik B.L. Larsen was previously a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School and an EASI-Hurford Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He completed his PhD jointly between the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the University of Southern Denmark and was Visiting Researcher at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Inhalt
Introduction
PART I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter 1. Realism and Democratisation
Chapter 2. Neoclassical Realism: Stringency and Richness
PART II. EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 3. NATO Beside a Resurgent Russia
Chapter 4. The Shadows of Europe's Past
Chapter 5. Explaining NATO in Eastern Europe
PART III. WESTERN BALKANS
Chapter 6. NATO in a Patchwork of Nationalisms
Chapter 7. Great Power Strategies of Regional Security Integration
Chapter 8. Explaining NATO in the Western Balkans
PART IV. AFGHANISTAN
Chapter 9. NATO Adapting Armed Democratisation
Chapter 10. Budgetary Dispositions and Geopolitical Interpretations
Chapter 11. Explaining NATO in Afghanistan
PART V. CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 12. The Avenue of Democratic Realism
Chapter 13. NATO in an Illiberal World