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NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance
by Kaplan, Lawrence S
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Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.. xvi, 237 p. Illustrations. Documents; Chronology. Notes and References. Bibliographic Essay. Glossary of Terms. Index. This is Twayne's International History Series no. 1! The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) remains the indispensable link that binds America and Europe in common defense-even after the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries. The North Atlantic Treaty, which established NATO after its signing in Washington, D.C., in 1949, was one of the West's primary cold war-era countermeasures against the threat of Soviet aggression. Considering a military attack on any member an attack on all its members, NATO has made its way through some 45 years of turbulence from both without and within-the Korean War (1950-53), the Soviet launching of Sputnik in 1957, the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, France's sudden withdrawal from the alliance in 1966 and the subsequent relocation of NATO headquarters to Brussels, SALT and START negotiations, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, and the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. In updating his 1987 history of the United States' relations with NATO and the European interests it encompasses, the eminent NATO scholar Lawrence S. Kaplan looks at the challenges the organization faces in the 1990s, arguing that the alliance is still essential for a stable and secure Europe and that it is incumbent on the United States to maintain its NATO troop strength. U.S. participation in NATO marked a fundamental change in America's pre-World War II policy of isolationism, and Kaplan begins this study by examining the postwar mood that led Washington into the unprecedented treaty and then to the maneuvers-especially by John Foster Dulles and Arthur Vandenberg-that facilitated the progress from treaty to organization. Kaplan charts the ups anddowns of U.S. involvement with NATO as he explores NATO's "New Look" in the 1950s, negotiations with the irascible Charles de Gaulle and France's exit from NATO in the 1960s, detente and the Nixon doctrine of the 1970s, the dual-track approach (promoting both new arms and arms control) of the early 1980s, the challenge posed by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s, and the shape of the so-called new world order that emerged from the rubble of the Communist empire. The fate of the large nuclear arsenals in Russia and the Ukraine, the rise of nationalism in the former Soviet republics, and NATO membership for the former Warsaw Pact countries are crucial issues remaining on NATO's drawing board, and Kaplan's timely and comprehensive chronicle of this enduring alliance should prove essential reading for anyone interested in what Europe will look like, and how secure it will be, in the twenty-first century.
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- Title
- NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance
- Author
- Kaplan, Lawrence S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint. Second printing
- ISBN 10
- 080577906X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805779066
- Publisher
- Twayne Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- NATO, Dean Acheson, Prussels Pact, European Economic Community, Henry Kissinger, Atlantic Council, George Kennan, Lemnitzer, SACEUR, Warsaw Pact, Norstad, Ismay, Military Alliance, Collective Security
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