Nato Expansion And Us Strategy In Asia Surmounting The Global Crisis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781137367365
Description: "Combined with the US pivot to Asia, NATO enlargement could press Russia and a rising China into a tighter alliance--but with Russia playing the role of a junior partner. This book argues for bringing Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey into a new Euro-Atlantic confederation, not only in order to draw Moscow away from forging a closer military relationship with Beijing but also to help revitalize a Europe in crisis. Concurrently, Washington and Moscow need to work together to prevent disputes between North and South Korea, Japan, and China, as well as between Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran from exploding into a major power war"--