Jason Naselli: Arguments that NATO is outdated or reaching its end are flawed because they incorrectly view it as a conventional military alliance, say a number of new books. Recent scholarship instead has looked at NATO as an international institution, and predicts a much brighter future.
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Many of the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall focus on unsolved problems and take much of the past two decades as a foregone conclusion. ++ However, 20 years ago a united Germany seemed like an absurdity as did the notion of NATO expansion. ++ Although many awful things happened in the meantime, “the inhabitants of Central Europe are healthier,
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