Potential Partners in the Pacific? Soft Power and the Sino-NATO Relationship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502892270)

Is there mutual benefit in a relationship between China and NATO? What shape might such a relationship take, and what are the ramifications for both China and NATO member states? This paper argues that China and NATO share a common interest in maintaining security of the global commons, and that such a relationship could appeal to NATO's desire to extend cooperative security beyond the Euro-Atlantic area while offering the Chinese a means for protecting their interests on the global stage in a constructive, non-threatening manner. While both NATO and China have interests in Afghanistan, the most fertile ground for a future relationship lies in mutual functional interests in soft power pursuits such as crisis management, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HR/DR), nonproliferation, and globally-sanctioned operations that protect common goods.

Author: United States Military Academy
ISBN-10: 1502892278
ISBN-13: 9781502892270
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2014
Pages: 26
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.05d