Knocking on NATO: Strategic and institutional challenges risk the future of Europe’s seven-decade long cold peace
Journal: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2019

Abstract: Despite its strong role in providing the public good of European stability by the provision of collective defence and security via an exclusive club, NATO faces challenges as it enters its next decade of survival. NATO’s unique institutional structure permits a variety of cooperative schemes to produce the club’s goods depending on how individual contributions aggregate to provide the good as well as the qualities associated with the publicness of the good (i.e. rivalry and excludabili