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Doubling Nato: Functional And Geographical Enlargement Of The Alliance, Ergodan Kurt
Doubling Nato: Functional And Geographical Enlargement Of The Alliance, Ergodan Kurt
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation studies NATO expansion as institutional adaptation. More specifically, it examines the interaction between NATO's functional and geographical enlargement. This study asserts that there is a close relationship between NATO's new functions and its enlargement. Over time, NATO evolved from a collective defense alliance to a comprehensive security organization. As NATO undertook new functions, its capabilities no longer matched the requirements of the new functions. The geographical enlargement, in fact, constitutes a vehicle for the fulfillment of the capability shortfall.
Furthermore, this dissertation asserts that the new security environment will force NATO to focus on the regions at a …
The Tale Of Two Narratives: Nato As A Collective Defense And A Collective Security Institution, Anna M. Rulska
The Tale Of Two Narratives: Nato As A Collective Defense And A Collective Security Institution, Anna M. Rulska
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
The goal of this project is to determine NATO's present and future roles as a collective security organization and as a security alliance. In the past, NATO has dealt with both objectives under different and changing conditions. This paper argues that throughout the entirety of its history, NATO worked as both collective security and collective defense organization. The theoretical assumptions made within the paper are supported by the analysis of the past behavior of the Alliance in respect to the relationship between the narrative of collective security and that of collective defense, and changes within that relationship. Four specific periods …