This timely volume assesses NATO's current accomplishments, continuing challenges, and potential pitfalls. Leading international scholars and policymakers explore three key themes influencing NATO's future: transatlantic relations, the debate over enlargement, and the organization's new functions. Weighing the fate of an alliance poised for renewal or decline, the contributors offer informed analysis and discussion of an organization that has changed profoundly over the past five years and continues to evolve in the face of an uncertain global environment.

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Transatlantic Relations After the Cold War Chapter 3 Recasting the Atlantic Alliance Chapter 4 Common European Defence and Transatlantic Relations Chapter 5 France's New Relationship with NATO Chapter 6 The Masque of Institutions Part 7 NATO Enlargement Chapter 8 NATO Enlargement: A Framework for Analysis Chapter 9 The Flawed Logic of NATO Enlargement Chapter 10 Can Containment Work Again? Chapter 11 NATO Enlargement and the Baltic States Chapter 12 The Costs of NATO Enlargement Part 13 New Functions Chapter 14 Combined Joint Task Forces in Theory and Practice Chapter 15 Partnership for Peace: Permanent Fixture or Declining Asset? Chapter 16 NATO's Role in Counter-Proliferation Chapter 17 The Western European Union and NATO's 'Europeanisation'

By Philip H. Gordon - Contributions by Dana H. Allin; Ronald D. Asmus; Charles Barry; Michael E. Brown; Nicole Gnesotto; Robert P. Grant; Robert Joseph; Richard L. Kugler; F Stephen Larrabee; Robert C. Nurick; Nick Williams and Philip Zelikow