NATO’s Democratic Retrenchment

Hegemony After the Return of History

Author(s): Henrik B.L. Larsen
Series: Modern Security Studies
Publisher(s): Routledge
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Place: London, UK

This book, which explores what has driven NATO to pursue democratization in face of significant region-specific challenges, addresses the alliance’s adaptation to the current illiberal backlashes in Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Afghanistan following the alleged ‘return of history’. It also addresses what can explain policy expansion or retrenchment over time. The book offers a theoretical conception of NATO as a patchwork of one hegemonic and several great power interests that converge or diverge in the formulation of common policy, as opposed to NATO as a community of universal values.

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