Future Challenges
The survival of NATO depends on its ability to respond to future challenges from new threats. NATO’s distinctive attributes are an established alliance, an experienced command structure and capable military forces. Alternatives to NATO are assessed. Propo
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NATO at 70
Keith Hartley
NATO at 70 A Political Economy Perspective
Keith Hartley Emeritus Professor of Economics University of York York, UK
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To my wife, Winifred, and to our family: Adam, Rachel, Oliver and Imogen Hartley Professor Lucy Hartley Dr Cecila Ellis and Martyn, Matthew Jacob, Kathryn Olivia and Sophie Elizabeth Ellis
Preface
Much of my academic career has been devoted to defence economics. The opportunity to review and evaluate NATO after its 70 year existence was not to be missed. This book takes a non-technical economics perspective using only two diagrams! For many people NATO has been ever present: taken for granted as a well-established institution. After 70 years, it must be doing something right. This book assesses what it is doing right and what it is doing wrong. NATO has changed massively since its formation in 1949. Who would have guessed that it would survive for 70 years and increase its membership from 12 members to 30; that it would win the Cold War; that former members of the Warsaw Pact would become NATO members; and that it would adapt to a new strategic environment, new conflicts and new technology. Despite these successes and adjustments, critics continue to question its existence. This book aims to subject myths, emotion and special pleading about NATO to economic analysis and scrutiny. Much has been written about NATO: so why a
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