NATO in the Cold War and After: Contested Histories and Future Directions

ISBN-13: 9781032170619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 284 str.

Sergey Radchenko; Timothy Andrews Sayle; Christian Ostermann

Opis

This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order in the 1990s, with an eye to better understanding its present and its future.

Spis treści

Introduction - NATO: Past & Present  1. ‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995  2. Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992  3. The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement  4. An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states’ road to NATO membership  5. Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s  6. A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group  7. The zero option and NATO’s dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox  8. Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc  9. NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations