ABSTRACT
As the title suggests, this chapter examines the challenges faced by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in its efforts to combine multiple logics of security provision in a rapidly changing security environment. Contemporary analyses of NATO tend to start from the observation that the Atlantic Alliance has become a victim of its own success. Having emerged from the Cold War as (what was widely regarded as) the most successful alliance in history, NATO soon found itself facing difficult questions regarding its future. However, contrary to numerous gloomy predictions, NATO managed to embark on a comprehensive process of reform and enlargement to adapt to the rapidly changing security environment. Yet, that ambitious (and, in some ways at least, highly effective) process of adaptation did not entirely address major questions regarding the future role of NATO.
