The Oxford Handbook of NATO

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-885119-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1004 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1878 g

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has since its foundation in 1949 been the principal body of the Western security order, and remains as important in the 2020s as it was in the 1950s. This Handbook offers the most extensive treatment of the Alliance published in the last two decades, providing detailed coverage of NATO allies, policies, and organizational structures. It brings together internationally renowned scholars who interrogate NATO's actions from historical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives.

The Handbook is divided into nine parts. Following an introductory part offering a thematic overview of NATO, framed by different approaches to domestic politics and global order, the second part explores three broad questions - what is NATO for, who is NATO for, and whither NATO? Part Three is more expressly theoretical, providing multi-perspectival analyses of the Alliance. Part Four then turns to how NATO works as a political-military alliance. Parts Five and Six are concerned with what NATO does in practical terms - how it addresses a wide range of security threats and what operations it has mounted in response. Part Seven looks at some of NATO's most significant allies including France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Part Eight, meanwhile, is concerned with partnerships and key relationships beyond NATO's membership - looking at Australia, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, China, the European Union, and the European neutrals as well as ties to states in the Gulf, the Middle East, and North Africa. The final part of the volume offers reflections on NATO's recent past and possible lines of future development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sperling, James

Webber, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I. Context

- 1: James Sperling and Mark Webber: Understanding NATO

- 2: Trine Flockhart: Global Order

- 3: Stephanie C. Hofmann and Michael John Williams: Domestic Politics

- Part II. Questions

- 4: Michael Clarke: What is NATO for (Redux)?

- 5: Andrew T. Wolff: Who is NATO for?

- 6: Stanley R. Sloan: Whither NATO? A History of NATO's Futures

- Part III. Perspectives

- 7: Seth A. Johnston: Realisms

- 8: Sebastian Harnisch and Florian Böller: Liberalisms

- 9: Alexandra Gheciu: Security Community: Identity, Practices, and Trust

- 10: Katharine A. M. Wright: Gender

- 11: Rita Floyd: Securitization, Desecuritization, and Just Securitization

- 12: Maria Mälksoo: Risk, Resilience, and Resistance

- 13: Gabi Schlag: Visual Discourses of Identity Making

- 14: Jordan Becker: Strategic Culture

- Part IV. Strategy, Policy, and Command

- 15: R. James Orr: The North Atlantic Treaty

- 16: Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey H. Michaels: Strategy

- 17: John R. Deni: Doctrine

- 18: Sebastian Mayer: The International Staff

- 19: Paal Sigurd Hilde: Military and Command Structures

- 20: Maryann Foster: Defence Planning and Force Generation

- 21: Ian Davis: Representation and Decision-making

- 22: Ryan C. Hendrickson: The Secretary General

- Part V. Deterrence, Defence, and Security

- 23: David S. Yost: Nuclear Deterrence

- 24: Stephan Frühling: Ballistic Missile Defence

- 25: Jens Ringsmose: Conventional Force Posture

- 26: Julian Lindley-French: Cybrid Warfare

- 27: Jamie Shea: Non-Traditional Security Threats

- 28: Cornelia Baciu: COVID-19, Crisis Management, and Civil Emergency Response

- 29: James Sperling: Emerging and Disruptive Technologies

- 30: Benjamin Zyla: Burden-sharing

- Part VI. Operations

- 31: Jonathan Marcus: Bosnia

- 32: Martin A. Smith: Kosovo

- 33: Kjell Engelbrekt and Braxton Palmer: Libya

- 34: Sten Rynning: Afghanistan

- 35: Brooke A. Smith-Windsor: Maritime Operations

- 36: Thierry Tardy: Counter-terrorism and Projecting Stability

- 37: Linde Desmaele and Luis Simón: Forward Deployment and Reassurance

- Part VII. Key Allies

- 38: James Goldgeier: The United States

- 39: Andrew M. Dorman and Matthew Uttley: The United Kingdom

- 40: Olivier Schmitt: France

- 41: Tom Dyson: Germany

- 42: Luca Ratti: Italy

- 43: Wojciech Lorenz: Poland

- 44: Tarik Oguzlu: Turkey

- Part VIII. Key Relationships

- 45: Magnus Petersson: Partnerships

- 46: Richard G. Whitman: The European Union

- 47: Andrew Cottey: The European Neutrals

- 48: Tracey German: Georgia and Ukraine

- 49: Alessandro Marrone: The Mediterranean Dialogue

- 50: Eleonora Ardemagni: The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative

- 51: Ben Schreer: Australia

- 52: Roland Dannreuther: Russia

- 53: Andrew Cottey and Mark Webber: China

- Part IX. Conclusion

- 54: Alexander Moens and Alexandra Richards: NATO's Redoubled Relevance

Über Autor(innen)

James Sperling is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Akron, having previously taught at Davidson College and at the James Madison College, Michigan State University. He was named Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Bologna.

Mark Webber is Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham. He was Head of the School of Government at Birmingham from 2011 to 2019 and Chair/Honorary President of the British International Studies Association (BISA) from 2019 to 2023. He is a non-resident fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome.