Assessing NATO's legitimacy in global governance: A three-layered framework
The Crises of Legitimacy in Global Governance, Gonca Oğuz Gök,Hakan Mehmetçik, Editör, Routledge, London/New York , London, ss.17, 2021
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2021
- Yayınevi: Routledge, London/New York
- Basıldığı Şehir: London
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.17
- Editörler: Gonca Oğuz Gök,Hakan Mehmetçik, Editör
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This chapter aims to scrutinize NATO as an International Organization
(IO) intending to construct its legitimacy by delivering Strategic
Concepts. Among various legitimation tools employed by NATO, this study
will specifically focus on its Strategic Concepts published respectively
in 1991, 1999 and 2010 with the aim of understanding its input, output
and throughput legitimacy. A closer assessment of the impact of three
consecutive Strategic Concepts of NATO on its legitimacy showcases that
the 1991 Strategic Concept of NATO has widely influenced its input
legitimacy whilst its impact on output and throughput legitimacy
remained limited. Whereas the 1999 strategic concept has contributed to
increase NATO's throughput and output legitimacy thanks to its
cooperation with third countries in the Middle East and Europe and to
its relative contribution to the consolidation of peace in the Balkans,
it has been less efficient on its input legitimacy due to increasing
internal split among its members on non-Article 5 operations. With
respect to the 2010 Strategic Concept, it seems that it has helped NATO
consolidate its input and throughput legitimacy especially in the field
of crisis management with third countries and cooperation with other IOs
and non-NATO members. Yet the 2010 Strategic Concept has not helped
much to consolidate NATO's output legitimacy in the cases of out of-sea
operations particularly.