NATO and collective defence in the twenty-first century: an assessment of the Warsaw summit

摘要

In the words of its editor, Karsten Friis, this collection comprises "short and focused chapters on topics related to collective defence and the Warsaw summit,"focusing on "politics and empirics, not academic theorizing."The collection concentrates on NATO's evolving approach - Friis calls it a "U-turn"- to collective defence on its eastern borders since Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014. For Friis, this period saw NATO's home-coming to collective defence, after decades focused on"out-of-area crisis management."