What's Wrong with NATO and How to Fix it. Mark Webber

      

CONTENTS

      1  Cover

      2  Series Page

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Preface and Acknowledgements Notes

      6  Abbreviations

      7  Introduction: What Is Wrong with NATO? NATO’s Predicament No, NATO Is Not Finished In Summary Notes

      8  Part I Problems 1 Doing Too Much: The Problem of Task Proliferation Task Proliferation Strategic Overload The Roots of the Problem NATO’s Treadmill of Problems Conclusion: Walking and Chewing Gum Notes 2 Weary or Wary? The Problem of American Leadership in NATO The Transatlantic Bargain: Coming Unstuck Again The Difficulty of Collective Action Grand Strategy, American Foreign Policy and NATO Conclusion: Reluctant and Indispensable Notes 3 Fiscal Constraints, Military Capabilities and Burden-Sharing Defence Spending in an Era of Fiscal Austerity Military Capabilities and Force Projection Shortfalls NATO Military, Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations Conclusion: Learned Helplessness Notes 4 NATO and Russia: Cold War Redux NATO–Russia Relations in the 1990s NATO–Russia Relations in the Putin Era Conclusion: The NATO–Russia Deep Freeze Notes

      9  Part II Treatments 5 Task Discretion: Doing Less but Better Matching Means to Ends The Need for Prudence NATO’s Need for Strategy Options for Consolidation Conclusion: A Strategic Centre of Gravity Notes 6 American Leadership or European Autonomy? US Leadership and Public Opinion: A Foundation for Optimism The Institutional Sources of American Leadership The Institutional Sources of European Followership American Foreign Policy: A Jacksonian Ascendancy? Conclusion: Striking a Viable Transatlantic Bargain Notes 7 Cash, Capabilities and NATO Effectiveness Operational Burden-Sharing: A Fair Share? Measuring the Defence Burden: Shooting at the Right Target Aggregating Capabilities Conclusion: Quality or Quantity? Notes 8 Mending NATO–Russia Relations Option 1: Enhancing Pan-European Security Structures Option 2: Russian Membership of NATO Option 3: ‘Concert’-Type Management of Regional Security in Eastern Europe Option 4: Reviving the NATO–Russia Council (NRC) Option 5: Tacit Understandings on Future NATO Enlargement Conclusion: A Tacit NATO–Russia Security Regime Notes

      10  Conclusion: Improvement, Repair and NATO’s Future How to Fix NATO What’s Next? Through a Glass, Darkly Conclusion: Fixing NATO Notes

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