NATO's Peace Enforcement Tasks and Policy Communities

<p>Challenging the dominant assumption that NATO intervened in the Balkans because of the threat that conflicts in the region posed to European security this book develops a new set of research questions based on the hypothesis of the existence of policy communities.</p><p>How has NATO managed to survive and transform itself into a peace-enforcement organization?<br>The author demonstrates there were shifting policy communities in operations that shaped the Alliance's transformation process arguing NATO would not have succeeded in assuming peace-enforcement tasks without other factors ranging from organisational dynamics domestic politics and the impact of ad hoc reactions to external events.</p><p>Highlighting the role of NATO as an actor in international security this volume is aimed at academics and practitioners in the field of international relations.</p>