Alliance Politics, Kosovo and Nato's War
Allied Force of Forced Allies?

This text attempts to answer questions regarding alliance politics: how much autonomy do the alliance members have? does the US dictate alliance policy? The contributors ask whether Operation Allied Force reflected a consensus among NATO's members, or whether some members were "Forced Allies".

As NATO's first hostile offensive military action, Operation Allied Force placed new demands and pressures on the alliance. Those pressures and demands offer an opportunity to answer critical questions regarding alliance politics: how much autonomy do the alliance members have? does the US dictate alliance policy? can the alliance function politically while engaged in combat? Contributors explore the experience of NATO's members individually as well as in terms of implications for theories of alliances. More fundamentally, the contributors to this volume ask whether Operation Allied Force reflected a consensus among NATO's members, or whether some members were "Forced Allies".

Preface
S.Hoffmann Kosovo, Alliance Politics, and the Future of NATO
M.R.Brawley &
P.Martin PART I: THE ALLIANCE, SECURITY
INSTITUTIONS AND THE NATURE OF NEW THREASTS NATO's Future (In Theory)
S.Walt Challenges to Euro-Atlantic Security
S.N.MacFarlane The Legal and Institutional Framework for Euro-Atlantic Security
A.Henrikson The European Union and Kosovo: Towards the Glass Ceiling?
A.Deighton PART II:
NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON OPERATION ALLIED FORCE US Foreign Policy towards the Alliance
C.Kupchan Allied Force or Forced Allies? The Allies' Perspective
D.Haglund Redefining European Security: French Lessons from the Kosovo Crisis
A.Macleod Germany and the Kosovo Conflict
P.Rudolf Britain's Role in the Kosovo Crisis: A force for good in the world
L.Richardson Italy and the Management of International Crises
M.Cremasco Canada: The Happy Democracy
K.R.Nossal &
S.Roussel The Atlantic Alliance and Kosovo: Enlargement and the Behavior of New Allies
M.Vachudova PART III: CONCLUSION Balancing Acts: Why NATO Held Up and Lessons to Learn
M.R.Brawley &
P.Martin