Session 8 (Thursday 4:00-5:30 pm)

NATO Burden-Sharing & U.S.-Europe relations

Required reading:
Simoni, Serena, and Harnisch, Sebastian. 2019. “New politics of burden-sharing in NATO?
Crisis, conflict, and resilience in an era of populism.” In The politics of resilience and transatlantic
order: Enduring crisis? Routledge studies on challenges, crises and dissent in world politics, eds. Gordon
Friedrichs, Sebastian Harnisch and Cameron G. Thies. London, New York: Routledge, Taylor
and Francis Group, 71–89.
Ringsmose, Jens & Mark Webber (2020). Hedging their bets? The case for a European pillar in
NATO, Defence Studies 43, 1–23.

Further reading:
Becker, Jordan, and Edmund Malesky. 2017. “The Continent or the ‘Grand Large’?
Strategic Culture and Operational Burden-Sharing in NATO.” International
Studies Quarterly 61 (1): 163–180.
Forster, Peter K., and Stephen J. Cimbala. 2005. The U.S., NATO and Military
Burden-Sharing. London: Frank Cass.
Jakobsen, Peter, and Jens Ringmose. 2017. Burden-Sharing in NATO. The Trump
Effect Won’t Last. NUPI Policy Brief 16/2017. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Kaufman, Joyce. 2017. “The U.S. Perspective on NATO under Trump: Lessons of
the Past and Prospects for the Future.” International Affairs 93 (2): 251–266.
Mattelaer, Alexander. 2016. “U.S. Leadership and NATO. Revisiting the Principles
of NATO Burden-Sharing.” Parameters 46 (1): 25–33.
Maull, Hanns W. 2011. “Hegemony Reconstructed? America’s Role Conception and
Its ‘leadership’ Within Its Core Alliances.” In Role Theory in International Relations. Approaches and
Analyses, edited by S. Harnisch, C. Frank, and H.W. Maull,
167–193. London: Routledge.
Noetzel, Timo, and Benjamin Schreer. 2009. “Does a Multi-tier NATO Matter? The
Atlantic Alliance and the Process of Strategic Change.” International Affairs 85
(2): 211–226.
Sandler, Todd, and J. F. Forbes. 1980. “Burden-Sharing, Strategy, and the Design of
NATO.” Economic Inquiry 18 (3): 425–444.
Thies, Wallace. 2009. Why NATO Endures. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wallander, Celeste. 2000. “Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO after the
Cold War.” International Organization 54 (4): 705–732.