Strategy in NATO ― Preparing for an Imperfect World

This edited volume addresses the challenges and opportunities facing NATO post-2014, applying an original approach to strategy that produces fresh insights into this hot topic within the international security community. We combine the definitions of the key strategic variables time, position, legitimacy, implementation structure and capabilities in the international relations literature on strategy with the differentiation of strategic processes into the categories of grand, security and theatre strategy in the strategic studies literature. We address NATO's internal dynamics and the role of significant members and partners, and how these influence NATO's conflict management. The volume appeals to academics and practitioners in the military and academia focusing on strategy and NATO. The edited volume demonstrates the usefulness of the concept of strategy for identifying challenges and opportunities in NATOs strategy formulation and implementation and how these can be used for the purpose of more efficient and accurate planning.

Liselotte Odgaard is an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defence College. Her most recent published monograph is China and Coexistence: Beijings National Security Strategy for the 21st Century, Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2012. Liselotte Odgaard has been selected as a contributor to the 2014 Nobel Symposium.