NATO, Security and Risk Management
This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The book offers a unified theory of cooperation in the new security paradigm to explain the current state of transatlantic relations and NATOs failure to adequately transform itself into a security institution for the twenty-first century. It argues that a new preoccupation with risk filled the vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union, and uses the literature of the risk society to analyse the strained politics of the North Atlantic Community. Using case studies to show how the West has pursued a strategy of risk management, and the effect this has had on NATOs politics, the book argues that a better understanding of how risk affects Western political cohesion will allow policy makers a way of adapting the structure of NATO to make it more effective as a tool for security. Having analysed NATOs recent failings, the book offers a theory for the way in which it can become an active risk manager, through the replacement of its established structure by smaller, ad hoc groupings.
This book will of much interest to students of NATO, risk society, international security, and IR in general.
M. J. Williams is Lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Contemporary security studies
Series Editors: James Gow and Rachel Kerr
Kings College London
This series focuses on new research across the spectrum of international peace and security, in an era where each year throws up multiple examples of conflicts that present new security challenges in the world around them.
- NATOs Secret Armies
- Operation Gladio and terrorism in Western Europe
- Daniele Ganser
- The US, NATO and Military Burden-Sharing
- Peter Kent Forster and Stephen J. Cimbala
- Russian Governance in the Twenty-First Century
- Geo-strategy, geopolitics and new governance
- Irina Isakova
- The Foreign Office and Finland 19381940
- Diplomatic sideshow
- Craig Gerrard
- Rethinking the Nature of War
- Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Jan Angstrom
- Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict
- Myth, falsehood and deceit 19911995
- Brendan OShea
- The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia
- Tim Donais
- The Distracted Eagle
- The rift between America and old Europe
- Peter H. Merkl
- The Iraq War
- European perspectives on politics, strategy, and operations
- Edited by Jan Hallenberg and Hkan Karlsson
- Strategic Contest
- Weapons proliferation and war in the greater Middle East
- Richard L. Russell
- Propaganda, the Press and Conflict
- The Gulf War and Kosovo
- David R. Willcox
- Missile Defence
- International, regional and national implications
- Edited by Bertel Heurlin and Sten Rynning
- Globalising Justice for Mass Atrocities
- A revolution in accountability
- Chandra Lekha Sriram
- Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism
- The origins and dynamics of civil wars
- Joseph L. Soeters
- Globalisation and the Future of Terrorism
- Patterns and predictions
- Brynjar Lia
- Nuclear Weapons and Strategy
- The evolution of American nuclear policy
- Stephen J. Cimbala
- Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East
- Owen L. Sirrs
- War as Risk Management
- Strategy and conflict in an age of globalised risks
- Yee-Kuang Heng
- Military Nanotechnology
- Potential applications and preventive arms control
- Jurgen Altmann
- NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Regional alliance, global threats
- Eric R. Terzuolo
- Europeanisation of National Security Identity
- The EU and the changing security identities of the Nordic states
- Pernille Rieker
- International Conflict Prevention and Peace-building
- Sustaining the peace in post conflict societies
- Edited by T. David Mason and James D. Meernik
- Controlling the Weapons of War
- Politics, persuasion, and the prohibition of inhumanity
- Brian Rappert
- Changing Transatlantic Security Relations
- Do the US, the EU and Russia form a new strategic triangle?
- Edited by Jan Hallenberg and Hkan Karlsson
- Theoretical Roots of US Foreign Policy
- Machiavelli and American unilateralism
- Thomas M. Kane
- Corporate Soldiers and International Security
- The rise of private military companies
- Christopher Kinsey
- Transforming European Militaries
- Coalition operations and the technology gap
- Gordon Adams and Guy Ben-Ari
- Globalization and Conflict
- National security in a new strategic era
- Edited by Robert G. Patman
- Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations
- No job for a soldier?
- James V. Arbuckle
- The Political Road to War with Iraq
- Bush, 9/11 and the drive to overthrow Saddam
- Nick Ritchie and Paul Rogers
- Bosnian Security after Dayton
- New perspectives
- Edited by Michael A. Innes
- Britain, America and the Dynamics of Alliance, 196268
- Kennedy, Johnson and NATO
- Andrew Priest
- Small Arms and Security
- New emerging international norms
- Denise Garcia
- The United States and Europe
- Beyond the neo-conservative divide?
- Edited by John Baylis and Jon Roper
- Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security
- Bridging the gap
- Lionel Ponsard
- International Law and International Relations
- Bridging theory and practice
- Edited by Tom Bierstecker, Peter Spiro, Chandra Lekha Sriram and Veronica Raffo
- Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States
- US national security policy after 9/11
- James H. Lebovic
- Vietnam in Iraq
- Tactics, lessons, legacies and ghosts
- Edited by John Dumbrell and David Ryan
- Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War
- Edited by Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn
- Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-first Century
- Altered images and deception operations
- Scot Macdonald
- Governance in Post-Conflict Societies
- Rebuilding fragile states
- Edited by Derick W. Brinkerhoff
- European Security in the Twenty-First Century
- The challenge of multipolarity
- Adrian Hyde-Price
- Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War
- Cruise missiles and US security policy
- Reuben E. Brigety II
- International Law and the Use of Armed Force
- The UN charter and the major powers
- Joel H. Westra
- Disease and Security
- Natural plagues and biological weapons in East Asia
- Christian Enermark
- Explaining War and Peace
- Case studies and necessary condition counterfactuals
- Jack Levy and Gary Goertz
- War, Image and Legitimacy
- Viewing contemporary conflict
- James Gow and Milena Michalski
- Information Strategy and Warfare
- A guide to theory and practice
- John Arquilla and Douglas A. Borer
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