This thesis seeks to find out how NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan have negatively affected relations with Russia. In order to achieve the aim and hypothesis of the study, the critical geopolitical approach is chosen as a theoretical framework. The sc…
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Germany stands as a pivotal country within the NATO alliance: it is an economic superpower and occupies a central geographic and political position in Europe. Germany's defense policy and its approach to alliance commitments will have a significant impact on the success or failu…
This thesis investigates the conditions under which decisions for military intervention are constrained by public opinion. Prior studies have identified electoral cycles and legislative checks as potential constraints on foreign policy making, but the interaction of these constr…
This dissertation examines the early history (1947–1954) of the Joint American Military Mission to Aid Turkey (JAMMAT) and its role in shaping U.S.-Turkish relations and as a window into the developing Cold War policies and strategies of the United States. This study begins by d…
In an increasingly globalized world, threats originating from outside the North Atlantic/European area affect the security of the transatlantic alliance, forcing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to develop capabilities to combat a multiplicity of global threats. Thi…
This thesis examines propaganda leaflets dropped by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Kosovo in 1999 and Libya in 2011. Using Stuart Hall's articulation theory (1986) as a theoretical and methodological framework, this thesis analyzes the textual and visual mes…
NATO’s second mission outside of its traditional area of operations, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, is nearing a decade in length. The mission has highlighted shortfalls in NATO’s capabilities, challenged NATO’s its relationships with countrie…
The search for identity in post-Soviet Russia has accompanied the political, economic and post-imperial transitions that began when the Soviet Union fell over a decade ago. The Constructivist literature in International Relations posits that these domestic processes, especially …
This dissertation analyses the role of international organisations in launching contemporary peace enforcement operations. Virtually all peace enforcement operations are launched from within the framework of a formal international organisation. This dissertation argues that lead…
Over many centuries, professional military personnel from multiple nations have often combined their forces to form a single unit in support of a mission against a common enemy. From the Boxer Rebellion to the World Wars to the events following September 11th in Afghanistan and …
This dissertation attempts to explain the persistent robustness of the Atlantic Community despite ongoing tensions and crises in the community. Conventional realist theories for explaining change are inadequate for studying the Atlantic Community because they posit that change o…
In 2006, NATO is operating well out of area and conducting missions beyond the collective defense limits of its founding Treaty. NATO increasingly supports humanitarian relief operations, while also engaged in Afghanistan, the Mediterranean, and African crisis spots. These chang…
This dissertation used a qualitative, case study to explore how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) applied strategic public relations management during peace operations in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1995 to 1996. The purpose of this research was to propose a model o…
This dissertation considers the impact of international organizations on the security of weak states through an analysis of the effects of NATO on two member states: Greece and Turkey. The dissertation argues that both the realist and institutionalist schools in international re…
The purpose of this study is to examine the utility of a just war explanation in understanding Canada's decision to enter into the war in Afghanistan. It examines Canada's three phases of the war under the lens of jus ad bellum . The concentration is upon jus ad bellum 's core c…
For a decade, the EU and NATO have both claimed to have a relationship purported to be a Strategic Partnership. However, this relationship is widely understood by both academics and practitioners to be problematic. Although not denying that the relationship is problematic, it is…
When Turkey became a candidate of the EU in 1999 it had been a problematic applicant for forty years due to residual unpopularity with several member states for cultural, economic, security and normative reasons. However, the Helsinki European Council heralded a change of fortun…
This study identifies and analyzes the key conditions for and causes of NATO's success rate in conducting multinational military peace-enforcement interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo. As its baseline it uses the UNPROFOR operation in Bosnia. Subsequently, it evaluates the IFOR/SF…