NATO after 9/11 An Alliance in Continuing Decline

Despite fifteen years of concerted effort to remake NATO, the much heralded alliance is in decline. Though dangers to Western security have emerged-the rise of Al Qaeda arguably the most significant-these threats have not unified NATO. In the absence of a menace to their vital interests, and with fundamental policy differences dividing North America and Europe, NATO is succumbing to the pressure of the times.

Richard Rupp is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University Calumet.  He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has taught at Wichita State University and the Varna University of Economics in Bulgaria.  Rupp’s research and teaching interests center on post-Cold War armed conflicts and international institutions. Rupp has published scholarly articles in a range of publications, including Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The Journal of Strategic Studies,  the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, and East European Quarterly.