NATO’s Troubled Relations with Partner Organizations: A Resource-Dependence Explanation

Abstract

This chapter investigates NATO’s interactions with other international organizations (IOs) since 1990.1 During the Cold War, the Alliance was a stand-alone organization with only minor ad hoc relations to other organizations (Kaplan 2010). Today, NATO not only entertains structured relations with an abundance of partner states (see Matláry, this volume), but also its ties with other IOs have multiplied.