NATO Enters the 21st Century

NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia highlights the choices and problems confronting the alliance as it approaches the new century. An alliance created to keep Western Europe out of the Soviet orbit during the Cold War has sought to reinvent itself as a "crisis-management" organization to suppress conflicts on Europe's periphery - and perhaps beyond. Is NATO suited to playing such a role, or is the alliance a Cold War anachronism? How will Russia react to an enlarged NATO focused on out-of-area peacekeeping and conflict-prevention missions? Are there alternative security institutions that might better address Europe's security needs in the post-Cold War era?

Ted Galen Carpenter is Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, Washington DC Alton Frye is a Presidential Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Christopher Layne is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in Global Security and a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California Amos Perlmutter is a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the American University Richard Rupp received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, Indiana Kori Schake is a Senior Research Professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University in Washington DC Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the US Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation