Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • A UN Assistant Secretary-General's warnings / by Denis J. Halliday
  • An overview of NATO growth: Prometheanism?
  • EU, NATO expansion and the Partnership for Peace
  • Yugoslavia and the reinvention of NATO
  • NATO in Afghanistan
  • NATO's Mediterranean dialogue
  • NATO in the Persian Gulf: the Gulf Security Initiative
  • Claiming the post-Soviet space
  • NATO and the high seas: Control of strategic waterways
  • The global missile shield project
  • NATO and Africa
  • The militarization of Japan and the Asia-Pacific
  • The drive into Eurasia: Encircling Russia, China, and Iran
  • The Eurasian counter-alliances
  • NATO and the Levant: Lebanon and Syria
  • America and NATO as Rome and the peninsular allies
  • Global militarization: at the doors of World War III?