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The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years

The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years


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The fiftieth anniversary of the long entanglement between the United States and NATO is an appropriate occasion to reflect. One of the few NATO studies to concentrate on the history of the alliance, particularly the relationship between its senior partner and its European allies, this study examines critical issues in depth, to uncover the ability of the allies to surmount their internal divisions and to confront their Soviet adversary. While NATO archives are still not fully open, the use of declassified documents from the National Archives and the presidential libraries are of invaluable assistance in considering the historical role of America in the alliance, and the continuing relevance of the organization in U.S. foreign policy. The twelve chapters of this book, provide analyses of important issues in the organization's history, and are connected by brief contexual narratives. The resulting picture depicts a fifty-year history in which the difficulties in arriving at a consensus among the fifteen allies, each understandably concerned with its own national interests, rival those of the alliance in dealing with the Communist threat. The implosion of the Soviet empire in the early 1990s left the organization in search of new reasons for its own existence. While centrifugal forces are arguably greater today than they were during the Cold War, none of the allies seeks to terminate this long entanglement.

Table of Contents:
Origins of the Alliance, 1948-1949 An Unequal Triad The "Atlantic" Component of NATO The Mutal Defense Assistance Act of 1949 NATO in the First Generation, 1950-1967 The Impact of Sputnik on NATO The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962 Les débats stratégiques NATO in the Second Generation, 1968-1989 The U.S. and NATO in the Johnson Years NATO and the Nixon Doctrine The INF Treaty and the Future of NATO NATO in the Third Generation, from 1991 NATO after the Cold War NATO at Fifty NATO: A Counterfactual History Appendix: Text of North Atlantic Treaty Bibliographical Essay Index

About the Author :
LAWRENCE S. KAPLAN is University Professor Emeritus of History and Director Emeritus of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University. He is currently Adjunct Professor of History at Georgetown University./e He was formerly a member of the Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense. During his tenure at Kent State he was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Bonn, Louvain, and Nice, as well as a visiting lecturer at University College London.

Review :
.,."the individual chapters are insightful, well-researched, and elegantly crafted pieces..."-Canadian Journal of History ?...the individual chapters are insightful, well-researched, and elegantly crafted pieces...?-Canadian Journal of History ?[A] treasure chest ... Kaplan... proves wrong those who believe that history must be boring. For example, his essay NATO: A Counterfactual History' offers a thought-provoking speculation about the path Europe might have taken had NATO never been created ... this chapter alone is worth the price of the entire book.?-NATO Review "ÝA¨ treasure chest ... Kaplan... proves wrong those who believe that history must be boring. For example, his essay NATO: A Counterfactual History' offers a thought-provoking speculation about the path Europe might have taken had NATO never been created ... this chapter alone is worth the price of the entire book."-NATO Review ..."the individual chapters are insightful, well-researched, and elegantly crafted pieces..."-Canadian Journal of History "[A] treasure chest ... Kaplan... proves wrong those who believe that history must be boring. For example, his essay NATO: A Counterfactual History' offers a thought-provoking speculation about the path Europe might have taken had NATO never been created ... this chapter alone is worth the price of the entire book."-NATO Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780275964191
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: NATO's First Fifty Years
  • ISBN-10: 0275964191
  • Publisher Date: 30 Mar 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 280


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