NATO Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region
Journal: Asian Security
Year: 2017

In a world characterized by shifts in global power, NATO’s partnerships – in Europe as well as elsewhere – are critical for the organization. Yet the question of how the Alliance’s global partners perceive NATO in the context of cooperative security, collective defence, and crisis management – including NATO’s goals, operational capacity, functional capability, and influence – remains impressionistic and under-addressed. This paper launches discussion about images and perceptions of NATO in the