"This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, its role in international relations and its influence on history. The volume examines the Alliance's evolution in breadth, depth and context by analysing and explaining why and how NATO has endured and remained relevant since its creation. To present an inclusive study of the Alliance's activities and milestone events and to offer a glimpse of future challenges, the book's twenty-nine chapters fall into six thematic sections that act as frameworks and allow the exploration of specific topics that pertain to the evolution of NATO: Part I: History of NATO, 1949-2024. Part II: Key Enduring Themes, 1949-2024. Part III: Military Operations, 1995-2024 Part IV: National Perspectives, 1949-2024. Part V: Regional Perspectives, 1949-2024. Part VI: Future Prospects, 2024. This handbook will be of much interest to students and researchers of NATO, strategic studies, defence studies and International Relations, as well as for staff and fellows at security- and defence-oriented think tanks and government officials, military personnel and other practitioners in the areas of foreign affairs and defence"--
This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, its role in international relations and its influence on history.
The volume examines the Alliance’s evolution in breadth, depth and context by analysing and explaining why and how NATO has endured and remained relevant since its creation. To present an inclusive study of the Alliance’s activities and milestone events and to offer a glimpse of future challenges, the book’s twenty-nine chapters fall into six thematic sections that act as frameworks and allow the exploration of specific topics that pertain to the evolution of NATO:
- Part I: History of NATO, 1949–2024
- Part II: Key Enduring Themes, 1949–2024
- Part III: Military Operations, 1995–2024
- Part IV: National Perspectives, 1949–2024
- Part V: Regional Perspectives, 1949–2024
- Part VI: Future Prospects, 2024–
This handbook will be of much interest to students and researchers of NATO, strategic studies, defence studies and International Relations, as well as for staff and fellows at security- and defence-oriented think tanks and government officials, military personnel and other practitioners in the areas of foreign affairs and defence.
This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the development and importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, its role in international relations and its influence on history.
Preface Foreword by NATO Secretary General Photographs from NATO
Archives Introduction: The Alliance for Our Times PART I: A History of NATO,
1949-2024
1. The Origins of NATO
2. NATO, 1949-1967
3. NATO, 1968-1989
4.
NATO, 1990-2013
5. NATO, 2014-2024 PART II: Key Enduring Themes, 1949-2024
6.
NATOs Military Transformations
7. A Nuclear Alliance
8. NATO, Arms Control
and Non-Proliferation
9. Transatlantic Burden Sharing
10. Russian Security
and Defence Policy from Stalin to Putin PART III: Military Operations,
1995-2024
11. NATO Air Power and the End of Bosnias Civil War
12. NATO and
Kosovo: Operation Allied Force, 1999
13. NATO Maritime Operations in the
Mediterranean
14. NATO in Afghanistan, 2003-2021
15. NATO and Libya:
Operation Unified Protector, 2011 PART IV: National Perspectives, 1949-2024
16. NATO and the United States
17. NATO and the United Kingdom
18. NATO and
France
19. NATO and Germany
20. NATO and Türkiye PART V: Regional
Perspectives, 1949-2024
21. NATO and the Northern Flank
22. NATO and the
Eastern Flank
23. NATO and the Southern Flank
24. NATO and the European Union
25. NATO and Partnerships PART VI: Future Prospects, 2024-
26. Sustaining
NATOs Political Cohesion
27. NATOs Deterrence and Defence: Protecting the
Future
28. Emerging Security Challenges
29. NATOs China and Indo-Pacific
Conundrum Appendix 1: NATO Secretary Generals: 1952-2024 Appendix 2: Supreme
Allied Commanders, Europe: 1951-2024 Appendix 3: The North Atlantic Treaty,
1949 Appendix 4: The Alliances New Strategic Concept (1991) Appendix 5: The
Alliances Strategic Concept (1999) Appendix 6: NATO 2010 Strategic Concept
Appendix 7: NATO 2022 Strategic Concept
John Andreas Olsen is a Colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force, a Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and a member of the RUSI Journal editorial board. He has published a series of books on NATO and air power, including the Routledge Handbook of Air Power (2018).
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