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This book addresses the isssue of NATO's role in today's world. It explores how changes in international political structures have influenced NATO's position and policies, as well as our view of its capacities. The essays in this book look at a variety of controversial issues, paying particular attention to debates over seeing NATO as a modern structure or as an obsolete organization.Contents: Foreword: A New NATO for a New Era, Manfred Wˆmer; Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; Introduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; THE UNITED STATES, NATO, AND EUROPE: Post-Cold War American Leadership in NATO, S. Nelson Drew; Partnership for Peace and the Future of European Security, Joseph J. Kruzel; Structure for Security in Europe, John R. Galvin; IS NATO OBSOLETE?: Is NATO Obsolete?, James Chace; Is NATO Obsolete?, Richard L. Kugler; Why NATO Persists, John S. Duffield; THE ENLARGEMENT OF NATO: CHANGING FACES: The Changing Faces of Nato; Partnership for Peace and the Combined Joint Task Force, Doug K. Bereuter; Russia in NATO: The Fourth Generation of the Atlantic Alliance, Ira L. Straus; NATO, East Asia, and Japan, Alan Tonelson; THE FUTURE OF NATO: The Future of NATO, David C. Acheson; NATO's Prospects, John Woodworth; The Future of NATO, Andrew J. Pierre.

This volume is an old-fashioned study in which seasoned and talented historians, lawyers, politicals scientists, and linguists seek to make sense of the ever-shifting patterns of change in the transition from the Soviet Union and its satellites to Russia and the former Soviet Republics, and to the recently indepents countries of Eastern Europe. The authors trace some of the early responses.

This volume explores subjects such as the rise of modern nationalism and its potentially destructive nature in regard to world order; arms control and disarmament in the nuclear age; and the problems of national self-determination and national minorities. They also take up the issue of human rightsówho is responsible for the promotion and enforcement of rights: the individual states and their citizens, or the international community? Contributors: William D. Jackson, James Piscatori, Moorhead Wright, W. David Clinton III, Lowell Gustafson, J.C. Garnett, Brian Porter, Michael Ross Fowler, Julie Marie Bunck, Robert Williams, Brian E. Klunk, Reed M. Davis, William R. Stevenson, Jr., Robert DeVries, Kenneth W. Thompson, Margaret P. Karnes, Harold K. Jacobson, and Inis L. Claude, Jr. Co-published with The Miller Center of Public Affairs.