Sharing the Burden?: NATO and Its Second-Tier Powers - Couverture souple

Zyla, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1442615591 ISBN 13 : 9781442615595

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2015

Synopsis

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO's middle powers have been pressured into shouldering an increasing share of the costs of the transatlantic alliance. In Sharing the Burden? Benjamin Zyla rejects the claim that countries like Canada have shirked their responsibilities within NATO. Using a range of measures that go beyond troop numbers and defense budgets to include peacekeeping commitments, foreign economic assistance, and contributions to NATO's rapid reaction forces and infrastructure, Zyla argues that, proportionally, Canada's NATO commitments in the 1990s rivaled those of the alliance's major powers. At the same time, he demonstrates that Canadian policy was driven by strong normative principles to assist failed and failing states rather than a desire to ride the coattails of the United States, as is often presumed. An important challenge to realist theories, Sharing the Burden? is a significant contribution to the debate on the nature of alliances in international relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin Zyla is an assistant professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442615591
• ISBN 13: 9781442615595
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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