The future of NATO : enlargement, Russia, and European security /

This book is ideal for advanced undergraduates in international relations because it covers the main facets of the NATO expansion debate in a sprightly way with no tedious details. The volume opens with a useful essay on the conceptual deadlock between the so-called "Yalta formula" and the "Maastricht formula." Structural-realists adhere to the Yalta formula, or geopolitical approach, while institutional-liberalists promote the Maastricht formula, or regionalist path. The latter is "an attempt to develop and consolidate a European economic, political, and security space founded on integration and institutionalism." At the heart of the conceptual debate, editor David writes, is the classic chicken-or-egg dilemma: "without security there is little hope for trade and prosperity, but without trade and prosperity, security remains an illusion." The book consists of three main parts: conceptual debates over NATO, national debates over NATO, and the impact of enlargement on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. The editors and most of the contributors are established scholars from Canada, while two authors, Richard Kugler (National Defense Univ.) and Gale Mattox (US Naval Academy) are American. Other international scholars are Sergei Plekhanov (former deputy director of the Institute of USA and Canada, Moscow), Marie-Claude Plantin (Univ. Lumiere in Lyon, France), and Jane M.O. Sharp (Kings College, London). J. Granville; Clemson University