title: NATO´s New Role. The Alliance´s Response to a Rising China
abstract: Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine have been momentous in
  their consequences for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  (NATO). Moscow has instilled new life in the almost
  seventy-year-old alliance. Doubts about its relevance and
  utility in the post–Cold War period have faded, at least for
  the time being, as leaders ponder what Russian leader Vladimir
  Putin will do next to challenge the alliance. Our central
  argument is that the transatlantic relationship is challenged
  by not only Russia’s M
journal: Naval War College review