Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
Dominika Kunertova |
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The Canadian politics of fair-share: the first burden-sharing debates about NATO | ||
in Journal of Transatlantic Studies , Volume 15, Issue 2 , 2017 , 161-183 | ||
After the long domination of economic and collective action theories, the literature on the political aspects of Allied burden-sharing is growing. This article analyses the politics of fair-share in NATO from the perspective of Canadian officials during the first burden-sharing debates in 1949–1952. I focus on sense-making and, through an interpretive methodology, I reconstruct the Canadian discourse on fair-share. This article shows that for Canada sharing NATO’s burden was not only a matter of technicality or realist considerations; in order to make NATO burden-sharing work, the allies needed to balance three dimensions of collective defence burden: military, economic, and moral. | ||