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The focus of the policy of the United States (US) during the Cold War was on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a military organization, and the US committed a substantial portion of its forces to that task. But the security needs of the post-Cold War era dictate that the focus now shift to a more comprehensive view of European security. NATO, to be sure, should continue as the basis on which the US pursues its fundamental or vital security interests. However, the US also has an interest both in helping to develop within NATO other activities that contribute to security, in a wider sense of the term than prevailed during the Cold War, and in providing leadership to broaden the traditional approach of the US and its European allies to organizations outside yet complementary to NATO that reinforce stability on the continent.
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One of the earliest and a representative one was Michael Mandelbaum. His arguments are summarized in Dawn of Peace in Europe (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1996).
For the cost debate, see Congressional Budget Office, ‘The Costs of Expanding the NATO Alliance’, CBO Papers, March 1996; Enlargement of NATO: Rationale, Benefits, Costs and Implications, report submitted to Congress by the CBO pursuant to Section 1048 of FY 1997 Defense Authorization Act, February 1997; and Ronald D. Asmus, Richard L. Kugler, and F. Stephen Larrabee, ‘What Will NATO Enlargement Cost?’ Survival 38, no. 3 (Autumn 1996): 5–26.
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Mattox, G.A. (1999). European Security Architecture: An American View. In: Ukraine and European Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14743-4_6
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