University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?

Submitter: Matthew Rosenstein

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/15113

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Title
Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Contributor(s)
  • Sloan, Stanley R.
  • Rosenstein, Matthew A.
  • Hendrickson, Ryan C.
  • Diehl, Paul F.
  • Kolodziej, Edward A.
Issue Date
2008
Keyword(s)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -- Afghanistan
  • International Security Assistance Force
  • Peacekeeping -- Afghanistan
Abstract
Since 2003, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has led the operation of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to “establish conditions in which Afghanistan can enjoy a representative government and self-sustaining peace and security.” However, ISAF has struggled to bring stability to Afghanistan, prompting concerns about its chances for meeting those objectives. Moreover, senior U.S. officials referred in spring 2008 to a possible “existential crisis” for NATO, as a result of tensions within the alliance over member countries’ troop-level and mission task commitments to ISAF. This collection of articles examines the significant challenges facing NATO as it conducts its first mission outside the Euro-Atlantic arena in its nearly sixty-year history.
Publisher
Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Swords and Ploughshares, summer 2008
ISSN
1046-7734
Type of Resource
text
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ACDIS Swords and Ploughshares PRIMARY