The European Neutrals and NATO Non-alignment, Partnership, Membership? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cottey, Andrew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Security Challenges
• Subjects: Europe-Politics and government.; Politics and war.; European Politics.; Military and Defence Studies.

This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO. Neutrality and alliance membership are fundamentally incompatible, but through the vehicle of NATO's post-Cold War partnerships the European neutral states an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1:  Introduction: The European Neutral State - Andrew Cottey
• Chapter 2: European Neutrality in Historical Perspective - Andrew Cottey
• Chapter 3: NATO's Partnerships - Andrew Cottey
• Chapter 4: 'The Allied Partner': Sweden and NATO through the Realist-Idealist Lens - Magnus Petersson.- Chapter 5: Finland and NATO: Strategic Choices and Identity Conceptions - Tuomas Forsberg
• Chapter 6: Austria: Engaged Neutrality - Heinz Gärtner
• Chapter 7: Ireland and NATO: A Distinctly Low Profile Partnership - Andrew Cottey
• Chapter 8: Switzerland and NATO: From Non-Relationship to Cautious Partnership - Christian Nünlist
• Chapter 9: Conclusion. .