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Martin Wight was one of the most profound and influential thinkers on international relations of his time; and his work is increasingly discussed, appraised, and drawn upon today. His earlier volume of posthumously-published lectures - International Theory: The Three Traditions- is now regarded as a seminal text. That volume is here complemented and completed. In these four lectures Wight takes the archetypal thinkers of the three traditions - Machiavelli, Grotius, and Kant - to whom he adds Mazzini, the father of all revolutionary nationalism (and so the prototype of such as Nehru, Nasser, and Mandela) and subjects their writings and careers to a masterly analysis and commentary. This volume has been prepared and edited by Gabriele Wight and Brian Porter, and contains an important new introduction to Wight's thought by Professor David S. Yost. The volume also contains a preface by Sir Michael Howard, CH. ... Read more

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Title: A tale of three Lucys: Wordsworth and Bronte in Kincaid's Antiguan Villette.(William Wordsworth and Charlotte Bronte)(Critical essay)
Author: David Yost
Publication: MELUS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31Issue: 2Page: 141(16)

Article Type: Critical essay

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This is a study of the strategic challenges that Soviet ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs may pose for the Western alliance. David Yost suggests that the challenges for Western policy stem partly from Soviet military programs, Soviet arms control policies, and Soviet public diplomacy campaigns, and partly from the West's own intra-alliance disagreements and lack of consensus about Western security requirements.

By reviewing the history of Western assessments of Soviet BMD, Yost shows that long before the American strategic defense initiative (SDI) was launched, Soviet BMD system modernization and infrastructure expansion were well under way, and that current Soviet programs are not mainly reactive to the SDI. Yost judges that the Soviets are probably better prepared than the Americans to deploy a network of traditional, ground-based BMD systems that would have at least some military value in the next decade, particularly against the limited and selective retaliatory attacks envisaged in NATO strategy. He does not argue that the Soviets are preparing for a clear-cut "breakout" from current arms control limits on BMD, but he notes the risks posed by activities that could eventually amount to a "creepout" from certain treaty constraints. Because of such ambiguities and the seriousness of the strategic and political stakes, the West should be prepared to pursue any necessary countermeasures in a timely fashion. His aim in this book is to advance understanding of the possible strategic challenges to the West and to identify potential points of consensus for Western policies.

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The US has maintained nuclear forces in Europe in support of its security commitments to NATO since the early 1950s, although the number of weapons has been greatly reduced since the late 1980s. This paper analyses the main factors that appear likely to influence US nuclear forces and commitments in Europe in the future: Russia and NATO enlargement; the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; West European nuclear-weapons cooperation; nuclear-abolitionist advocacy and events that might delegitimize nuclear-deterrence policies; arms control; adjustments in the US nuclear posture; and political developments in the US.Washington and its Allies believe that it remains in NATO's interest for America to maintain the credibility of its nuclear commitments with a continuing nuclear-weapons presence on the territory of NATO European Allies, and to engage these Allies, not only those with direct delivery and basing responsibilities, in nuclear consultation and planning activities. The main explanations for the continued relevance of US nuclear arms include: persistent uncertainties over Russia's future; potential threats in Europe's vicinity (including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction); the continued dependence of Germany and other non-nuclear Allies on US nuclear protection; and the dangers of fundamental destabilization should the US withdraw. ... Read more

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organizaion, perhaps more than any other Cold War institution, embodied the West's determination to deter potential Soviet aggression in Europe. But nearly a decade after the collapse of the Soviet empire, the Atlantic Alliance is engaged in cooperative security endeavors with former adversaries throughout Europe, including peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.

In this ambitious study, David Yost analyzes the major changes in the alliance and its new roles. While the Allies remain committed to collective defense, they have increasingly endowed NATO with new roles as an instrument of collective security.NATO Transformed provdies a comprehensive survey and analysis of the current debate on the alliance's enlargement and its new cooperative security institutions—-including the Partnership for Peace and the special consultative forums with Russia and Ukraine-- and the demands of crisis management and peacekeeping operations beyond NATO territory. Drawing on international political theory and the history of other alliances, Yost identifies crucial challenges for the cohesion and effectiveness of "the new NATO." ... Read more

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Required reading for serious analysts of European security
Professor Yost provides another lucid, provocative, and well-documented survey of critical issues of U.S. foreign policy. His wideranging review makes for an indispensable contribution to the core reading list forpolicymakers and students alike. John Borawski Director of the PoliticalCommittee NATO Parliamentary Assembly 1987-1999

Required reading for serious scholars of European security
Professor Yost as per custom provides a lucid, innovative, and extremely well-documented account of the future of NATO--an issue which will preoccupy US presidents in their essential leadership role of the AtlanticAlliance as it rediscovers its essential purpose of forging a just andlasting peace, accompanied by appropriate security guarantees, for thewhole of Europe.Together with Sean Kay's NATO and the Future of EuropeanSecurity (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), Gerald B. Solomon's The NATOEnlargement Debate (Praeger 1998), James Goldgeier's Not Whether But When(Brookings 1999). and the special issue of Defense Analysis, "NATO atFifty," ed. by Andrew Dorman and Thomas Durell Young (December 1999),international relations professors and enthusiasts have their core readingin front of them covering the main issues of the mix between collectivedefense and collective security, partnership with Russia and Ukraine, NATOenlargement, and the development of the concept of "mutuallyreinforcing institutions" for comprehensive security in theEuro-Atlantic area and beyond.Professor Yost has once again provided athoughtful and impartial expert analysis of the key issues of our time andthose of generations to foll ow.

John Borawski Director of the PoliticalCommittee NATO Parliamentary Assembly 1987-1999 ... Read more