NATO Expansion and Us Strategy in Asia ― Surmounting the Global Crisis

Combined with the US pivot to Asia, NATO enlargement could press Russia and a rising China into a tighter alliance—but with Russia playing the role of a junior partner. This book argues for bringing Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey into a new Euro-Atlantic confederation, not only in order to draw Moscow away from forging a closer military relationship with Beijing but also to help revitalize a Europe in crisis. Concurrently, Washington and Moscow need to work together to prevent disputes between North and South Korea, Japan, and China, as well as between Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran from exploding into a major power war.

Hall Gardner is Chair of the Department of International and Comparative Politics at American University of Paris, France. His research brings a historical and theoretical approach to bear on international affairs and concentrates on questions involving NATO and European Union enlargement and the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impact upon China and Eurasia. Some of his recent publications include Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy (2007; 2010), American Global Strategy and the War on Terrorism (2005; 2007), and the edited volumes The Ashgate Research Companion to War: Origins and Prevention (2012) and NATO and the European Union: New World New Europe New Threats (2004)