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Explaining NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, 1989--2004: An analysis of geopolitical factors, rationales, and rhetoric.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Explaining NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, 1989--2004: An analysis of geopolitical factors, rationales, and rhetoric./
Author:	Wolff, Andrew T.
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: A, page: 4174.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-11A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3428568
ISBN:	9781124263878

Explaining NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, 1989--2004: An analysis of geopolitical factors, rationales, and rhetoric.
Wolff, Andrew T.

Explaining NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, 1989--2004: An analysis of geopolitical factors, rationales, and rhetoric. - 253 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-11, Section: A, page: 4174.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2010.

This dissertation investigates the geopolitical factors influencing Western policy-makers' decision to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the 1990s and early 2000s. It does so by first synthesizing various strands of geopolitical theory to construct a meta-framework of geopolitical factors intrinsic to CEE which creates conditions conducive to Western expansion. Due to the area's geographic features, this region tends to function as a buffer zone between two competing civilizations: Russian and Western. The combination of geographic and political forces attracts intervention by these civilizations which results in strategic and political advantages. The dissertation applies this geopolitical theory to examine the history of enlargement, assess the validity of competing theories of enlargement, and dissect the discourse of enlargement to discover geopolitical influences. In the historical record, the dissertation investigates three episodes of eastward expansion of NATO---East Germany in 1990, the first round of enlargement to include the Central European three in 1999, and the second round of enlargement to include seven ex-communist nations in 2004. Next, the dissertation examines common theoretical explanations for NATO's eastward enlargement and highlights how these theories use components of geopolitical theory. Finally, the study conducts a discursive analysis of policy-makers' statements in support of enlargement in order to identify the presence of geopolitical language and rationales. The dissertation concludes that geopolitically-influenced arguments were present in a significant portion of the decision-making process and geopolitical factors held sway over explanations usually deemed to be non-geopolitical. Geopolitics acted as an underlying force in the enlargement debate and suggested policies to decision-makers which tended towards enhanced engagement in the CEE region. The geopolitical analysis also suggests that NATO enlargement may be reaching its geographic limits. Overall, this dissertation research proves the applicability of geopolitical theory in studying the NATO enlargement process and reveals the forces that impacted the outcome of Western institutional enlargement on the European continent.

ISBN: 9781124263878Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669648
Political Science, International Relations.

Explaining NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, 1989--2004: An analysis of geopolitical factors, rationales, and rhetoric.
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