The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliances new vision (the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact associated tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon. The book serves as a relevant and timely study of the most pressing issues facing NATO today including recent lessons gained. It provides recommendations for consideration and further discussion (i.e., the what and the how regarding future policy options for the North Atlantic Alliance). The intended audience includes international security policy-makers, government officials, elected leaders, academics, interested professionals, civil society and members of the public.

Specifically, the book focuses on six topic areas. Part I, the Introduction, relates to conceptual and organizational changes, membership expansion and enlargement. Part II consists of emerging security challenges, including terrorism, piracy, homeland threats, cyber defense and information warfare, energy security, non-proliferation and countering WMD. Part III incorporates national and regional challenges such as the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, North Africa and the Middle East.

Part IV deals with military and non-military assets. It integrates capability development, burden sharing, common funding, ballistic missile defenses and the phased adaptive approach, non-strategic nuclear weapons, and a broad-based comprehensive approach to security. Part V covers multifaceted collaborative relationships between NATO and various governmental, inter-governmental, and non-governmental bodies. This section incorporates outreach and engagement with Russia, India, Pakistan, and China, as well as with other non-NATO countries, the Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). Formal and informal linkages with the EU, OSCE, and the UN are also essential features of such a cooperative activity. Additionally, the expanding participation of civil society and growing involvement of new key NATO interlocutors (e.g., NGOs, academics) have created new international partnering opportunities as a means of bolstering global security through innovative public-private partnerships.


Part VI includes a Summary and Conclusions.

Yonah Alexander is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism at SUNY.

Richard Prosen is resources, reform, and transnational threat coordinator in the Department of States Office of European Security, Political, and Military Affairs (EUR/RPM).

Introduction: Yonah Alexander and Richard Prosen (editors)
Part I: Horizontal Security Challenges: Emerging Security Challenges and Threats
Chapter 1: Asymmetric Threats and New Security Challenges
Natividad Carpintero-Santamaria (General Secretary, Institute of Nuclear Fusion)
Chapter 2: NATOs Cyber Decade?
R. David Edelman (Director for Cyber Policy, National Security Staff)
Chapter 3: Counter-Piracy
Carrie Shirtz (Political Military Officer, Office of European Security and Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State)
Chapter 4: The New NATO Policy Guidelines on Counterterrorism: Analysis, Assessment, and Actions
Stefano Santamato (Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University) with Marie-Theres Beumler (European Peace University)
Part II: Vertical Security Challenges: National, Regional and Operational
Chapter 5: NATO and the Balkans: From Intervention to Integration
Raffi Gregorian (Director, Peace Operations, Sanctions and Counter-terrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
Chapter 6: Operation Unified Protector: Prospects and Challenges for NATO's Role in Global Security
James Henry Bergeron (Political Advisor, Striking Force NATO/U.S. Sixth Fleet)
Chapter 7: NATO and Afghanistan: Partnership and Setbacks
Richard Weitz (Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute)

Part III: NATOs Assets and Capabilities
Chapter 8: Capabilities Development and Common Funding
George Sinks (Program Manager, LMI)
Chapter 9: NATOs Ballistic Missile Defense
Michael Ziemke (Office of Policy and Regional Affairs, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State) and Paul Dodge (Office of the Secretary of Defense)

Part IV: NATO: Quo Vadis?
Chapter 10: NATO-Russia Relations: Ukraine and Other Unfinished Business
Patrick Murphy (Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies)
Chapter 11: The Changing Parameters of the Transatlantic Security Relationship: The Case of Afghanistan
Georgiana Cavendish (U.S. Department of State)
Chapter 12: Partnership for Peace Consortium: An Innovative Approach to Defense Education and
Institution Building
Raphael Perl (Executive Director, Partnership for Peace Consortium) and Enrico Mueller (Deputy Executive Director, Partnership for Peace Consortium)
Chapter 13: NATO Partnerships into the Future
Leslie Ordeman (Spokesperson at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem) and Bruce Weinrod (Former Secretary of Defense Representative for Europe and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and NATO Policy)
Chapter 14: NATO as a Security Exporter: Resourcing Capabilities and Capacity to Shape and Protect NATOs Global Interests
Derrick J. Busse (Potomac Institute for Policy Studies)
Chapter 15: Summary and Conclusions
Yonah Alexander (Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies)

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