The globalization of NATO

Foreword

A UN Assistant Secretary-General's warnings / by Denis J. Halliday

Pre-9/11: the years before 2001

An overview of NATO growth: Prometheanism?

EU, NATO expansion and the Partnership for Peace

Yugoslavia and the reinvention of NATO

Post-9/11: the years after 2001

NATO in Afghanistan

The Mediterranean dialogue

NATO in the Persian Gulf: the Gulf Security Initiative

Claiming the post-Soviet space

NATO and the high seas:

Control of strategic waterways

The global missile shield project

NATO and Africa

The militarization of Japan and the Asia-Pacific

The system of alliances and the threats of a global conflict

The drive into Eurasia:

Encircling Russia, China, and Iran

The Eurasian counter-alliances

NATO and the Levant: Lebanon and Syria

America and NATO as Rome and the peninsular allies

Global militarization: at the doors of World War III?.