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050 00 $aUA646.3$b.C494 1994
082 00 $a355/.031091821$220
100 1 $aChernoff, Fred.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84198018
245 10 $aAfter bipolarity :$bthe vanishing threat, theories of cooperation, and the future of the Atlantic Alliance /$cFred Chernoff.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9412
300 $axii, 303 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. The Study of Alliance Cooperation -- 2. Theories of International Cooperation -- 3. Cooperation on Alliance Deployment Decisions -- 4. Cooperation on Alliance Arms Control Decisions -- 5. Cooperation on Alliance Out-of-Area Operations Decisions -- 6. Doctrine and Alliance Consultation Decisions -- 7. Theoretical Analysis -- 8. Conclusions.
520 $aThe demise of the Soviet threat has compelled the United States and Europe to reassess how they deal with each other and with the rest of the world. For the past forty-five years, NATO has been the centerpiece of U.S.-European security relations, but some analysts now argue that the alliance can no longer survive. Should NATO states continue to rely on the NATO alliance for security?
520 8 $aSeveral theories have been advanced to help answer this question. Nevertheless, After Bipolarity defends the argument that none of them - neorealism, neoliberal institutionalism, or cybernetic theory - is an entirely convincing account of past relations among NATO states and proposes a new theory based on disparate elements of these earlier theories.
520 8 $aThe author builds his case on twenty-one instances where alliance cooperation was sought, from the Suez crisis to Operation Desert Storm, representing a variety of issue areas: arms deployments, arms control, out-of-area operations, and alliance doctrine. Much of the data for the case studies comes from interviews with government and alliance officials and sheds considerable new light on certain key alliance decisions.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAfter Bipolarity makes use of a variety of methods to test the key variables. Boolean algebra, in particular, is used to illuminate the author's theory, which contends that there is no unique set of necessary and sufficient conditions for cooperation but that there are alternate sets of conditions that may produce cooperative behavior.
520 8 $aIt is noteworthy that threat perception, a variable emphasized in widely accepted realist and neorealist theories, does not perform as well as other, less popular variables in explaining cooperation. Chernoff concludes that without a commonly perceived threat, continued transatlantic cooperation will be possible but will require a more diligent management of intra-alliance relations.
610 20 $aNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006743
650 00 $aNational security$zEurope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108222
650 00 $aNational security$zNorth America.
651 0 $aEurope$xMilitary policy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115000
651 0 $aNorth America$xMilitary policy.
852 00 $bleh$hUA646.3$i.C494 1995