NATO, EU and Russia: Reforming Europe's security institutions

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 197-221

  Yesson, Erik ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 85023137397     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011475506104     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. For example, see Ivo H. Daalder on 'institutional buck-passing' in 'Fear and Loathing in the Former Yugoslavia', in Michael E. Brown (ed.), The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1996), pp. 59-61;
2. and Philip Zelikow on 'The Masque of Institutions', 38/1 Survival, Spring 1996, p. 6.
3. For a relevant comparison of Europe and East Asia in terms of both domestic and international institutions, see two articles by Aaron L. Friedberg: 'Ripe for Rivalry: Prospects for Peace in a Multipolar Asia', 18/3 International Security, Winter 1993/94, pp. 5-33;
4. See James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics (Free Press, New York, 1989).
5. An analysis of commitment problems is found in Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1960);
6. Schelling, Arms and Influence (Yale University Press, New Haven 1966);
7. and Jon Elster, Ulysees and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979).
8. A recent application of institutional theory to commitment problems is Lisa L. Martin, Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992).
9. Transparency and informational problems in international relations are analyzed by Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1984).
10. A recent application of institutional theory to these problems is Helen V. Milner, Interests, Institutions, and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1997), chap. 4.
11. David M. Kreps provides a theoretical analysis of focal points in Game Theory and Economic Modelling (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990).
12. Applications to international relations appear in Robert O. Keohane and Judith Goldstein (eds), Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1993).
13. See Paul DiMaggio and Walter W. Powel (eds), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991).
14. See Reneo Lukic and Allen Lynch, Europe from the Balkans to the Urals: The Disintegration ofYugoslavia and the Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996), pp. 347-348.
15. Kori Schake, Europe after NATO Expansion: The Unfinished Security Agenda (University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Policy Paper 38, 1998).
16. See, for example, two essays by Charles A. Kupchan: 'Rethinking Europe', 56 National Interest, Summer 1999, pp. 73-75;
17. and 'Turning Adversity into Advantage: Russia in NATO', in Mathias Jopp and Hanna Onjanen (eds), European Security Integration for Non-alignment and Alliances (Finnish Institute of International Relations, Helsinki 1999), pp. 215-235.
18. Alexander Nicoll, 'Setback for EU's Nato Links,' Financial Times, 18 December 2000, p. 2.
19. See Josepth Fitchett, 'Turkey Puts Roadblock in EU Force Negotiations', International Herald Tribune, 26 January 2001, p. 1.
20. Meltem Müftüler-Bac, 'Turkey's Role in the EU's Foreign and Security Policy', 31/4 Security Dialogue, December 2000, pp. 489-500, at p. 500.
21. Anton La Guardia, 'America Tries to Stop the EU from Going It Alone on Defence', Daily Telegraph, 16 December 2000.
22. NATO, 'Final Communiqué', Ministerial Meeting of the North Atlantic Council, Brussels, 15 December 2000, Press Communiqué M-NAC-2 (2000)124, para. 31. The first joint meeting of the NAC and PSC took place at EU headquarters on 5 February 2001.
23. Edward Foster, 'Nasty and Nice: The Fog Surrounding European Defence', 21/1 RUSI Newsbrief, January 2001, p. 2.
24. This approach derives from theoretical research on 'minilateralism', which explores how small groups within larger institutional structures can promote cooperation. For an overview, see Miles Kahler, 'Multilateralism with Small and Large Numbers', in John G. Ruggie (ed.), Multilateralism Matters: The Theory and Praxis of an Institutional Form (Columbia University Press, New York, 1993).
25. Cited in Thomas E. Ricks, 'Strike Force, Missile Defense Split U.S., Allies', Washington Post, 5 February 2001, p. A13.
26. According to one report, this informal group is known as the 'quint'. See 'Clinton Props up the Old World', Economist, 27 November 1999, p. 35. These states also head up the five military sectors in Kosovo.
27. James Gow, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War (Hurst, London, 1997), esp. chap. 9.
28. Charles Grant, 'Correcting the Democratic Deficit', FinancialTimes, 3 October 2000, p. 15.
29. See, for example, Vladimir Barannovsky, 'Russia: A Part of Europe or Apart from Europe?', 76/3 International Affairs, July 2000, pp. 455-456;
30. and Heinz Timmermann, 'European-Russian Partnership: What Future?', (2000) 2 EFA Rev, p. 166.
31. See Dmitriy Danilov and Stephan De Spiegeleire, From Decoupling To Recoupling: A New Security Relationship between Russia and Western Europe? (WEU, Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper 31, April 1998), p. 32.
32. See on this point Jolyon Howorth, European Integration and Defence: The Ultimate Challenge? (WEU, Institute for Security Studies, Chaillot Paper 43, November 2000), p. 77.
33. See Dana Priest, 'A Decisive Battle That Never Was', Washington Post, 19 September 1999, p. A1;
34. and Steven Erlanger, 'NATO Was Closer to Ground War in Kosovo Than Is Widely Recognized', New York Times, 7 November 1999, p. A4.
35. In Schelling's language, an actor 'burns bridges behind it' as an act of precommitment. See Schelling, Arms and Influence, n. 5 above, p. 44.
36. See David Gowan, How the EU Can Help Russia (Centre for European Reform, London, 2000), p. 23.
37. John Bolton, 'The Threat to NATO's Future', Financial Times, 11 February 2000, p. 13. In February 2001, Bolton was nominated by President Bush to be undersecretary for arms control and international affairs at the State Department.
38. See 'Weathering the Storm', Economist, 9 September 2000, pp. 25-32.
39. See Robin Bhatty and Rachel Bronson, 'NATO's Mixed Signals in the Caucasus and Central Asia', 42/3 Survival, Autumn 2000, pp. 129-145.