1 NATO: A Critical Approach
Journal: Bristol University Press eBooks
Year: 2026

NATO is not an alliance; it's a defense arrangement for Europe, paid for and underwritten by the United States.These words of US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth (Jason, 2024), draw attention to the increasing scrutiny and seemingly incessant challenges NATO faces, even as it enlarges to 32 member states and returns to its collective defence posture in the face of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.NATO has transitioned from a state of 'banal militarism', characterized by an assumption of