Henrik Boesen Lindbo Larsen is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). He served as a Political Adviser with the EU Delegation to Ukraine and before that with the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine. He was previously a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School and an EASI-Hurford Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He completed his PhD jointly between the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the University of Southern Denmark and was Visiting Researcher at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.
Introduction
PART I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Chapter 1. Realism and democratisation
Chapter 2. Neoclassical realism: stringency and richness
PART II. EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 3. NATO beside a resurgent Russia
Chapter 4. The shadows of Europe's past
Chapter 5. Explaining NATO in Eastern Europe
PART III. WESTERN BALKANS
Chapter 6. NATO in a patchwork of nationalisms
Chapter 7. Great-power strategies of regional security integration
Chapter 8. Explaining NATO in the Western Balkans
PART IV. AFGHANISTAN
Chapter 9. NATO adapting armed democratisation
Chapter 10. Budgetary dispositions and geopolitical interpretations
Chapter 11. Explaining NATO in Afghanistan
PART V. CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 12. The avenue of democratic realism
Chapter 13. NATO in an illiberal world
