Do naszych zbiorów trafiła książka wydana w serii What's wrong? wydawnictwa Polity Press. W tej popularnej serii ukazującej się już od kilkunastu lat czołowi międzynarodowi eksperci starają się przedstawić diagnozę zaobserwowanych problemów, które nękające kluczowe globalne instytucje i niektóre obszary polityki oraz proponują strategie naprawy tych wad w przyszłości. Tym razem jest to
What's wrong with NATO and how to fix it / Mark Webber, James Sperling and Martin A. Smith. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2021. xii, 308 pages ; 21 cm., What's wrong? series, ISBN 9780745682624 paperback, 9780745682617 hardback, 9780745682655 ePub [Call No. 46522].
Spis treści i informacje z obwoluty są następujące:
Contents: Introduction. What is wrong with NATO? -- I. Problems -- Doing too much : The problem of task proliferation -- Weary or wary? The problem of American leadership in NATO -- Fiscal constraints, military capabilities and burden sharing -- NATO and Russia : Cold War redux -- II. Treatments -- Task discretion : Doing less, better -- American leadership or European autonomy? -- Cash, capabilities and NATO effectiveness -- Mending NATO-Russia relations – Conclusion. Improvement, repair and NATO's future.
Book Jacket: "NATO, the most successful alliance in history, is beset by unresolved tensions and divergent interests that are undermining its cohesion, credibility and capability. In this new book, Mark Webber, James Sperling and Martin Smith explore four key post-Cold War developments that threaten NATO's survival: an overextended geostrategic reach and an unwieldly security policy portfolio; a failure to address capability short-falls and meet defence spending benchmarks; US weariness and European wariness that call NATO into question; and intra-alliance discord over Russia's place in the European security order and how to deal with Moscow's destabilization of Georgia and Ukraine. The authors propose in response a range of policy options that could reinvigorate NATO, but conclude with a note of caution. Alliances come and go and most are cast into the dustbin of history. If NATO is to avoid this fate, it must not only address the major problems that trouble it, but also get to grips with future challenges to alliance cohesion and credibility, from Brexit to the emerging contest with China."--PUBLISHER'S NOTE.
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W naszych zbiorach mamy już dwie książki z tej serii, są to
What's wrong with the European Union and how to fix it / Simon Hix. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2008. xii, 220 p. ; 21 cm. What's wrong? series, ISBN 9780745642055, 0745642055 [Call No. 24546]
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What's wrong with the United Nations and how to fix it (2nd ed.) / Thomas G. Weiss. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2012. xx, 292 p. ; 21 cm. What's wrong? series, ISBN 9780745659831 (pbk), 9780745659824 [Call No. 33192],
aczkolwiek muszę dodać, że jest już trzecie wydanie tego ostatniego tytułu (ISBN 9781509507443).
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