The importance of opposing viewpoints -- Introduction -- Did the end of the Cold War remove the need for NATO? : The post-cold war world still needs NATO / Lindsay Lloyd ; NATO has started a new cold war / Mohammed Almezel ; Putin may have a point about NATO / Klaus Wiegrefe ; NATO expansion led to the current tragedy in Ukraine / Ted Galen Carpenter ; Putin must be stopped by NATO / Robert Pszczel ; Russian agression is to blame for the war in Ukraine, not NATO expansion ; Ken Moskowitz ; Putin is trying to us Ukraine to fight NATO expansion battles that have already been settled / Becky Sullivan -- Is NATO good for democracy? : Some challenges to democracy come from NATO's own members / Rachel Rizzo ; The free world needs alliances beyond NATO / John Davenport ; NATO needs to be cautious if it wants to protect democracy / Rachel Ellehuus ; Hungary's democratic backsliding should be a wake-up call for NATO / Max Bergmann and Siena Cicarelli -- Is NATO effective at defending its members and allies? : Triggering Article 5 could bring NATO to war / Louis Jacobson ; Article 5 does not necessarily mean the U.S. would have to go to war with Russia / Katherine Yon Ebright ; NATO still plays a key role in keeping the peace in Europe / Alan Dowd ; NATO cannot allow Putin's agression / Richard Kamp -- Do NATO members spend enough on their own defense? : A defense budget increase gets rare bipartisan support from the U.S. / Jacqueline Feldscher and Marcus Weisgerber ; The war in Ukraine has forced European countries to increase their defense budgets / Chrstina Mackenzie ; NATO should ditch the 2 percent metric / Todd Harrison and Seamus P. Daniels ; Two percent is not the magic number / Marcus Hellyer ; European NATO members should carry a greater share of defense costs / David Adesnik -- For further discussion -- Organizations to contact.
Summary:
"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, was established by several western nations after World War II to create a collective security defense against Soviet aggression. Continuing long after the breakup of the Soviet Union, this peacetime military alliance has grown since its inception, now counting 30 member states from North America and Europe. Providing historical context and current examples, the viewpoints in this resource explore and debate NATO's relevance and effectiveness in a world vastly different than the one the organization was conceived in"-- Provided by publisher.
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