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Alliance Solidarity after 9/11

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The 9/11 terrorist attacks led NATO — for the first time in its history, and after its original raison d’être, the Cold War, had ended — to invoke Article 5 of its founding treaty in less than 24 hours after the attacks. Article 5 meant that Germany had to participate in the response to the attacks — otherwise it would have seriously violated its treaty obligations and thus isolated itself diplomatically.

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Hilpert, C. (2014). Alliance Solidarity after 9/11. In: Strategic Cultural Change and the Challenge for Security Policy. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137383792_4

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