26 research outputs found
Atuação da OTAN no pós-Guerra Fria: implicações para a segurança internacional e para a ONU
Russian Foreign Policy and International Relations Theory. By Christer Pursiainen Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2000. viii, 246 pp. Notes. Bibliography. $69.95, hard bound.
Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1917-1993. By Andrea Chandler. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xv, 205 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $44.95, hard bound.
Helga Haftendorn, Georges-Henri Soutou, Stephen F. Szabo, and Samuel F. Wells, Jr., eds., The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe
Moscow, Germany, and the West from Khrushchev to Gorbachev. By Michael J. Sodaro. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 423p. 15.95 paper.
Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO After the Cold War
What happens to alliances when their precipitating threats disappear?Understood in realist terms, alliances should not outlive the threatsthey were created to address. As coalitions of states aggregating theircapabilities to cope with common enemies, alliances should have nopurpose beyond deterrence or defense, and no resources beyond the powerand purpose of their members. When threats disappear, allies lose theirreason for cooperating, and the coalition will break apart. Consistentwith the theoretical underpinnings of realist theory, early in thepost Cold War period many scholars predicted NATO s demise.