European Security, East and West: The Significance of the Missile Shield Proposal

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  • James W. Peterson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/cbp.2011.168

Abstract

The Missile Shield Proposal, with the intended emplacement both of its radar site in the Czech Republic and of its anti-missile interceptors in Poland, emerged from the Bush Administration in the United States, a NATO partner to the West, and was directed at threats emanating from the East. As such, it became for a time a meeting place between American and Czech security goals. A range of political pressures eventually came to bear upon the proposal. External political pressures included Russian anxiety about the real target of the missile shield itself, while internal pressures entailed serious political party and public concerns in the Czech Republic. In spite of those pressures, the executive leadership in both countries approved the plan in mid-2008. However, following the American elections later in 2008, President Obama cancelled the project in the fi rst year of his administration. At the same time, his attention to the urgency of European security led him to endorse a substitute proposal that would offer a similar level of security. Thus, the senior NATO partner to the West continued to maintain a priority on protection of the Czech Republic and other European neighbors against dangers in the East.

Author Biography

James W. Peterson

Dr. James W. Peterson is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. He received his B.A. in Government from Cornell University. He also has an M.A. in Government and a Ph.D. in Political Science
from Indiana University. He is the author of NATO and Terrorism: Organizational Expansion and Mission Transformation. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. Recent  publications include “The Party Isn’t Over: An Analysis
of the Communist Party in the Czech Republic,” with Jiří Lach, James LaPlant, and David Hill, 2010, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 26 (3): 363–388; “The Czech Republic and the World: Confl icting Loyalties, Organizational Memberships, and Changed National Images,” Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, No. 1907, August, 2008; and “An Expanded NATO Confronts Terrorism and Instability,” 2007, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 20(04): 475–497.

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2011-12-21

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No. 2102: European Security, East and West: The Significance of the Missile Shield Proposal

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