{"product_id":"nato-and-the-russian-war-in-ukraine-9781911723141","title":"NATO and the Russian War in Ukraine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor three decades after the Cold War, NATO member states no longer faced a major threat and focused on out-of-area operations. They took the opportunity to reduce defence spending and foster their own national defence industries; interoperability was limited to air and maritime missions on a small scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and war by proxy in eastern Donbass was a wake-up call, while China's creeping seizure and fortification of islands in the South China Sea, as well as its relentless acquisition of Western technologies, similarly alerted the Western leadership to a less benign strategic environment. But the real shift occurred in 2022. China and Russia not only announced their \u003cem\u003eunlimited friendship\u003c\/em\u003e, but made clear their intention to reduce American hegemony by breaking up the NATO alliance and its Pacific equivalents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNATO and the Russian War in Ukraine\u003c\/em\u003e is the first account of the challenges and solutions for so-called strategic integration in this coercive global situation. The contributors show, thematically and through selected national case-studies, how strategic integration and interoperability are conceived, debated, problematised, and resolved. The chapters are written with specific reference to the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has galvanised a new era of integration and alliance cooperation within NATO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607254810860,"sku":"9781911723141","price":130.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bf8e6bed5cd5904e8f252efa764c5e11.jpg?v=1778190841","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/nato-and-the-russian-war-in-ukraine-9781911723141","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}