Select Committee on Defence Written Evidence


Table 2:

COMMON CRISIS MANAGEMENT


NOTES:
15  Kenneth N Waltz, "The Emerging Structure of International Politics," International Security 18, No 2 (Fall 1993), 75-76. See also John J Mearsheimer, "back to the Future," International Security 15, No 1 (Summer 1990): 52
16Dieter Mahncke, The Role of the USA in Europe: Successful Past but Uncertain Future? European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol 4, Issue 3 (Autumn 1999), 353-370, here 364-365
17"An Alliance for the 21st Century," Washington Summit Communique«, Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington, DC on 24 April 1999.
18The Alliance's Strategic Concept, Approved by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington DC on 23 and 24 April 1999.
19F Stephen Larrabee, NATO Enlargement and the Post-Madrid Agenda (RAND, Santa Monica: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
20Stephen J Blank, "NATO enlargement between rhetoric and realism," International Politics, Vol 36, No 1, March 1999, 67-88, here 69.
21Austria presently occupies observer status in the WEU.
22The WEU-Treaty prohibits such a development, however. Art IV states that "recognising the undesirability of duplicating the military staffs of NATO, the Council and its Agency will rely on the appropriate military authorities of NATO for information and advice on military matters."
23The Finish Presidency, Presidency Report to the Helsinki European Council Strengthening of the Common European Policy on Security and Defence: Crisis Management, Helsinski, December 11-12, 1999.
24David C Gombert/F Stephen Larrabee (ed), America and Europe, A Partnership for a New Era, Cambridge 1997, p 237.
25General's Address at The WEU Ministerial In Luxembourg, 23 November 1999.
26General Klaus Naumann, "NATO's new military command structure," NATO-review, Spring 1998, No 1, p 11.


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