BOOK REVIEW: Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member States Matter

Abstract

“Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member States Matter” by Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters conducts a distinctly member-state based theoretical examination of interorganizational cooperation between the EU and NATO. Ewers-Peters mainly intends to demonstrate member states’ foreign/security policy orientations, roles and positions affecting the functionality and dys-functionality of Euro-Atlantic security, between the period of the end of the Cold War and 2021. The book is composed of seven chapters including conclusion and implications. By providing 28 face-to-face semi-structured interviews carried out in Berlin and Brussels between February 2017 and February 2018, with different member states’ representatives (see Appendix A.), as well as document analysis of primary and secondary sources, the book relies on well-designed qualitative research.

Keywords

EU-NATO Cooperation, Member States, Interorganizational Interaction, Functional Overlap, Advocates/Blockers, Security Policy

Citation

Pınar Atakara, “Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters, Understanding EUNATO Cooperation: How Member States Matter (Routledge, 2022)”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol. 21, No 81, 2024, pp. 103-105.

Affiliations

• Pınar Atakara, Dr., Researcher