Cooperating for Peace and Security : Evolving Institutions and Arrangements in a Context of Changing U.S. Security Policy

Cooperating for Peace and Security is a comprehensive survey of multilateral security cooperation since 1989, with essays by leading experts on topics from humanitarianism to nuclear security. It shows that US interests have shaped institutions - but other states have also driven reforms without US support.

Cooperating for Peace and Security attempts to understand - more than fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, seven years after 9/11, and in the aftermath of the failure of the United Nations (UN) reform initiative - the relationship between US security interests and the factors that drove the evolution of multilateral security arrangements from 1989 to the present. Chapters cover a range of topics - including the UN, US multilateral cooperation, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), nuclear nonproliferation, European and African security institutions, conflict mediation, counterterrorism initiatives, international justice and humanitarian cooperation - examining why certain changes have taken place and the factors that have driven them and evaluating whether they have led to a more effective international system and what this means for facing future challenges.