Abstract
S&F Sicherheit und Frieden , Seite 90 - 95
Highlights
After September 11, NATO has almost exclusively focused on out-of-area crisis management missions
This gap could in principle be filled by the EU, which already has a strategic concept to govern the use of European military and non-military assets for missions abroad
Its political legitimacy owed much to the fact that the victorious Allied powers who entered into NATO accepted exactly the same constraints and conditions upon themselves
Summary
Even in its classic Cold War form, the NATO Alliance did not embody the non-national, integrated approach to defence as fully as might have been expected. ❘ FORUM to use a historic opening to re-model its total forces in a more modern and coordinated way, even if it did impose a fairly consistent ‘model’ on the Central European countries seeking to enter it from outside.[7]. To express this in a more schematic fashion, we could say that some NATO members such as Britain, Germany or the Netherlands had a 3-level construct of defence identity and obligation during the Cold War: national (territorial) defence; collective NATO defence (in the European theatre); and global involvement (which took very different guises, eg for Britain and Germany). Some Allies like Norway, Portugal, Greece or Turkey were arguably rather close to this latter model in terms of the everyday experience of their soldiers and publics, even if there was genuine political substance to the sense of collective NATO obligations in between.[8]
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