Title: U.S. Leadership and the Reform of Western Security Institutions: NATO Enlargement and ESDP
Abstract: At the end of the Clinton presidency, NATO's dual transformation from a collective defense organization with uncertain prospects to the core of an enlarged security community and an instrument of conflict and crisis manage-ment was well advanced. For the Clinton Administration, NATO served as the central vehicle for continuing the traditional American role as Europe's "benign hegemon." The Administration remained wedded to the old rationale of American foreign policy according to which the United States was needed as Europe's "pacifier," to use Josef Joffe's words, in order to forestall the reemergence of the security dilemma within Europe and the return to the old rivalries — a development which, in this view, would entail grave consequences for American security and economic interests.2 Thus, the emergence of a "European Security and Defense Policy" (ESDP) was primarily seen as threat to the institutional primacy of NATO and the traditional American leadership role.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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