Conclusions: where is NATO going?

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Notes

See Martin A. Smith, NATO in the First Decade after the Cold War (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), p.130ff.

For a small sampling see ‘The Dangers of a Deaf Dialogue’, Financial Times, 10 February 2003; Stephen Castle, ‘Robertson's Gamble Misfires and the Alliance Ruptures’, The Independent, 11 February 2003; ‘Divisive Diplomacy With Europe’, New York Times, 11 February 2003, at <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/>.

George Robertson, ‘The Omaha Milkman Today’, RUSI Journal, Vol.149, No.1 (2004), p.44.

Andrew Moravcsik, ‘Striking a New Transatlantic Bargain’, Foreign Affairs, Vol.82, No.4 (2003), pp.78–80.

‘NATO's Istanbul Summit: Alliance under a Cloud’, Strategic Comments, Vol.10, No.5 (2004), p.2, at <http://www.iiss.org/stratcom>.

On this see also Paul Cornish, ‘NATO: The Practice and Politics of Transformation’, International Affairs, Vol.80, No.1 (2004), p.74.

Smith, NATO in the First Decade after the Cold War, p.176.

James Kurth, ‘The Next NATO’, National Interest, No.65 (2001), pp.10–12.

Elisabeth Bumiller, ‘Bush Tells Veterans of Plan to Redeploy G.I.'s Worldwide’, New York Times, 17 August 2004, at <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/politcs/>; ‘Moving on’, The Economist, 21 August 2004, pp.39–40.

‘Moving on’, p.39.

See Stephen Castle, ‘America to Move its Troops away from “Old” Europe’, The Independent, 2 May 2003; Lawrence Korb, ‘The Pentagon's Eastern Obsession’, New York Times, 30 July 2003, at <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/30/>.

Statement by the North Atlantic Council (Press Release (97)27), at <http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1997/p97-027e.htm>.

John Borawski, The NATO–Russia Founding Act, ISIS Briefing Paper 12, at <http://www.isis-europe.org/isiseu/english/no12.html>.

For details see Smith, NATO in the First Decade after the Cold War, pp.85–6.

Anne Deighton, ‘The Eleventh of September and beyond: NATO’, in Lawrence Freedman (ed.), Superterrorism: Policy Responses (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp.119–20.

Quoted in Ivo Daalder, ‘The End of Atlanticism’, Survival, Vol.45, No.2 (2003), p.155.

John Kampfner, Blair's Wars (London: Free Press, 2003), p.117.

Philip Gordon, ‘NATO After 11 September’, Survival, Vol.43, No.4 (2001–2002), p.92.

Gordon, ‘NATO After 11 September’, p.93.

‘The North Atlantic Treaty’, NATO Facts and Figures (Brussels: NATO, 1989), p.377.

Gordon, ‘NATO After 11 September’, p.93.

See, inter alia, Stephen Castle, ‘France Resists US Pressure to Conduct Nato Training in Iraq’, The Independent, 28 July 2004; Stephen Castle, ‘Nato Scheme to Train Iraqi Security Forces is Blocked’, The Independent, 29 July 2004.

For details, therefore, see The NATO Training Implementation Mission arrives in Iraq (Press Release (26)), at <http://www.afsouth.nato.int/releases/2004releases/PR_26_04.htm>; Enhancement of NATO Assistance to Iraq, at <http://www.nato.int/docu/update/2004/09-september/e0922.htm>.

On this latter issue see, inter alia, ‘Reinforcements Needed’, The Economist, 19 June 2004, pp.65–6; Bronwen Maddox, ‘Security Problems in Afghanistan are Taking Nato to the Brink of Failure’, The Times, 25 June 2004.

Air Marshal Sir Timothy Garden (now Lord Garden), Sandhurst Defence Forum seminar, 18 May 2004.

Cornish, ‘NATO: The Practice and Politics of Transformation’, p.65.

A view shared by, among others, Ronald Asmus. See his ‘Rebuilding the Atlantic Alliance’, Foreign Affairs, Vol.82, No.5 (2003), p.21.

Anthony Forster and William Wallace, ‘What is NATO for?’, Survival, Vol.43, No.4 (2001–2002), p.119.

Gordon, ‘NATO After 11 September’, p.102.

See, inter alia, Steven Weisman, ‘Powell Displays Tough U.S. Stance Toward Russians’, New York Times, 27 January 2004, at <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/>; ‘The End of the Affair?’, The Economist, 25 September 2004, p.50.