After bin Laden: Security Strategy and the Global Commons

摘要

The Cold War ended 20 years ago. NATO has yet to define a twenty-first-century mission. New allies and new rivals are emerging. There are new security threats that do not lend themselves to military response and that cannot be addressed either by old alliances or by the United States alone, and the nature of warf are and the character of conflict themselves are chang-ing. The United States' national predisposition, however, has been to rely on traditional institutions and policies and to use them to address unfolding history on its own timetable.