The contributors to this book set out to show that NATO's post-Cold War troubles are largely self-generated and almost exclusively "eastern". They focus in particular on the issue of what to do with the former Yugoslavia.
Part 1 NATO's "transformation debate": NATO and the quest for ongoing
viability, David G. Haglund; why collective defense is unnecessary and
collective security impossible, S. Neil MacFarlane; peacekeeping - NATO's new
mission?, Joel Sokolsky. Part 2 Eastern challenges: the Yugoslav civil war,
William Fischer; the "new architecture" of East European security - a view
from inside, Piotr Dutkiewicz; the great game revisited? the quest for
influence in independent central Asia, Stephen Page. Part 3 Western
interests: between "Eurovoluntarism" and pragmatism - France and Europe's new
security equation, Michel Fortmann; the American response to European
nationalism, Kevin F. Donovan; Germany, the blue-helmet debate and the
Eastern crisis, Joachim Rabe. Part 4 Institutional responses to the Eastern
challenge: the European Community and the Eastern challenge, Charles
Pentland; the North Atlantic Cooperation Council - a recipe for stability, or
glue for NATO?, William G. Yerex; western militaries - can they assist the
democratization and "civilianization" process in eastern Europe?, Douglas
Bland.
