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Years of Free-Riding? Canada, the New NATO, and Collective Crisis Management in Europe, 1989–2001

2010; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/02722010903536938

1943-9954

Benjamin Zyla,

International Relations and Foreign Policy

Abstract Most discussions about the impact of Afghanistan on the future of NATO focus on transatlantic relations between the United States and the European Union. But for Canada, which is one of the few NATO allies that voluntarily deployed into the south, facing heavy resistance and fighting from Taliban insurgents, the Afghanistan operations have become the most salient dimension of its continued involvement in the Atlantic Alliance. While this may seem surprising, given the cutbacks in Canadian defense spending in the 1990s and the withdrawal of Canada's standing forces from Germany, it should not. For during that so-called dark decade, Canada continued to make major contributions to NATO and European security. This essay argues that Ottawa's multi-faceted military and political support of the "new" NATO of the post–Cold War era continued when the alliance undertook its involvement in Afghanistan. Indeed, in its efforts in support of NATO's mission in Afghanistan, Canada has demonstrated a dedication to the alliance that seems stronger than NATO's collective commitment to itself. Keywords: Canadian foreign policyNATOBalkansEurope1990 Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the assistance of the European Forum, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, where I was a visiting scholar in the summer 2008. The research was also partially made possible by the Centre for International Relations at Queen's University, as well as a grant from the Department of National Defence and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Notes 1. See, for example, Gheciu (2005 Gheciu, Alexandra. 2005. NATO in the "New Europe:" The politics of international socialization after the Cold War, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]); Schimmelpfennig 2003 Schimmelpfennig, Frank. 2003. 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