Augmenting Our Influence: Alliance Revitalization and Partner Development

As the United States and its allies prepare to withdraw most of their military forces from Afghanistan and following the end of the war in Iraq, fundamental questions have arisen over the future of American Landpower. Among them are the role of allies and partners in terms of contributing to the safeguarding of shared global interests, the implications of the Pacific rebalancing for American alliances worldwide, and the role of Landpower in identifying, developing, and maintaining critical alliances, partnerships, and other relationships. To examine these and other questions, as well as to formulate potential solutions to the challenges facing U.S. national security in the coming decade, the U.S. Army War College gathered a panel of experts on alliances and partnerships for the 24th Annual Strategy Conference in Carlisle, PA. Conducted on April 9-11, 2013, the conference explored American Landpower implications associated with an evolving national security strategy. Chaired by the Strategic Studies Institute's Dr. John R. Deni, the panel devoted to alliances and partnerships featured expert presentations based on the papers in this edited volume by Dr. Sean Kay, Dr. Carol Atkinson, and Dr. William Tow. Their analyses provided the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Defense with invaluable strategic assessments and insights.

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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
CAROL ATKINSON is a Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the University of Southern California. In 2005, Dr. Atkinson completed a distinguished 26-year career in the U.S. Air Force. While in the military, she served in a wide range of operational assignments in the fields of intelligence, targeting, and combat assessment. During the fall of 2013 she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the G. S. Rakovski National Defense Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr. Atkinson's research focuses on how the United States extends its influence or "soft power" worldwide through military educational exchange programs hosted by U.S. elite military schools, its war and staff colleges. She recently completed a book on this topic called Military Soft Power: Public Diplomacy Through Military Educational Exchanges that will be available from Rowman & Littlefield in the spring of 2014. Dr. Atkinson teaches courses on U.S. national security, international politics, soft power, warfare and emerging threats, and the role of ideas, norms, and identity in international security. She is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University.
JOHN R. DENI joined the Strategic Studies Institute in November 2011 as a Research Professor of Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) Security Studies. He previously worked for 8 years as a political advisor for senior U.S. military commanders in Europe. Prior to that, he spent 2 years as a strategic planner specializing in the military-to-military relationship between the United States and its European allies. While working for the U.S. military in Europe, Dr. Deni was also an adjunct lecturer at Heidelberg University's Institute for Political Science. There, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S. foreign and security policy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), European security, and alliance theory and practice. Before working in Germany, he spent 7 years in Washington, DC, as a consultant specializing in national security issues for the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and State and has spoken at conferences and symposia throughout Europe and North America. Dr. Deni is the author most recently of the book, Alliance Management and Maintenance: Restructuring NATO for the 21st Century, as well as several journal articles. He has published op-eds in major newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun. Dr. Deni completed his undergraduate degree in history and international relations at the College of William & Mary and holds an M.A. in U.S. foreign policy at American University in Washington, DC, and a Ph.D. in international affairs from George Washington University.
SEAN KAY is Robson Professor of Politics and Government and Chair, International Studies at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is an Associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University, and a fellow in foreign policy and national security at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, DC. He previously taught at Dartmouth College as visiting professor and was a research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He is a frequent speaker and media commentator on American foreign and national security policy, with a focus on Europe and NATO. Dr. Kay is the authoror co-editor of six books, including NATO and the Future of European Security and Global Security in the Twenty-first Century The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace. His current book project focuses on contemporary strategic choices for American foreign and defense policy. Dr. Kay holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Kent State University, an M.A. from the Free University of Brussels, and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts.
WILLIAM T. TOW is Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations in the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies (IPS), College of Asia & Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU). He directs the ANU's security component of the Australian Research Council's Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security. He has also co-managed the ANU's project on cross-comparing bilateral and multilateral security approaches in the Asia-Pacific as part of the MacArthur Foundation's Asian Security Initiative (MASI). He has served on the Foreign Affairs Council of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and the Board of Directors for the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. Dr. Tow has authored or edited 20 volumes or monographs and over 100 journal articles or book chapters on various aspects of Asian security relations and alliance politics. His books have become standard sources for analysts and students working on security issues in the Asia-Pacific. He was Editor for the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is series co-editor for the Routledge Security in the Asia Pacific Series.