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The first half of this chapter discusses NATO’s engagement in Afghanistan, focusing on why the Bush administration decided to bypass NATO and choose an ad hoc coalition to implement the campaign, and why it then decided to utilise NATO to deal with reconstruction issues. It then analyses the legacy of Afghanistan, which is especially important to understand the purpose of NATO in the context of new security environment and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The second half of this chapter underlines the evolving concepts of NATO since the Kosovo operation. Specifically, it firstly addresses the second and third rounds of NATO enlargement and then analyses whether the USA would remain committed to NATO after the Afghan mission.
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Song, Y. (2016). NATO’s Ongoing Engagement after Kosovo. In: The US Commitment to NATO in the Post-Cold War Period . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33548-3_6
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