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Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War EuropeA Tale of Two Allies: Poland, Germany and the New Transatlantic Order

Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War Europe: A Tale of Two Allies: Poland, Germany... [During the course of the 2000s, Poland displaced Germany as Europe’s ‘model Atlanticist’, as evidenced by its ready display of political loyalty and non-selective adherence to the norm of Alliance solidarity during key military interventions initiated by the United States. Having become less dependent on external security guarantees after the end of the Cold War, meanwhile, Germany took a more sceptical view of Washington’s plans to transform the NATO defence pact into a more multifaceted organisation increasingly focused on security outreach beyond its borders. Chapter 3 explores the extent to which these differences were informed by the two states’ asymmetric security situations defined by their unequal capabilities and geopolitical locations. But it also probes how they were additionally conditioned by their dissimilar status within the Alliance, and their uneven ‘access’ to its main utility, the mutual defence guarantee.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War EuropeA Tale of Two Allies: Poland, Germany and the New Transatlantic Order

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-349-95351-6
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79 –120
DOI
10.1057/978-1-349-95352-3_3
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Abstract

[During the course of the 2000s, Poland displaced Germany as Europe’s ‘model Atlanticist’, as evidenced by its ready display of political loyalty and non-selective adherence to the norm of Alliance solidarity during key military interventions initiated by the United States. Having become less dependent on external security guarantees after the end of the Cold War, meanwhile, Germany took a more sceptical view of Washington’s plans to transform the NATO defence pact into a more multifaceted organisation increasingly focused on security outreach beyond its borders. Chapter 3 explores the extent to which these differences were informed by the two states’ asymmetric security situations defined by their unequal capabilities and geopolitical locations. But it also probes how they were additionally conditioned by their dissimilar status within the Alliance, and their uneven ‘access’ to its main utility, the mutual defence guarantee.]

Published: Sep 29, 2018

Keywords: Transatlantic relations; NATO; Article 5; Solidarity; Indivisibility; Diffuse reciprocity; Strategic concept; Atlantic Alliance transformation; Security outreach; Military interventions; Kosovo; Afghanistan; Iraq; War on terror; Instinctive Atlanticism; Multilateralism; ‘Normalisation’; ‘Dying for Gdańsk’; Frontstaat; Enlargement; Missile defence

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