Nato in the Cold War and After - Contested Histories and Future Directions

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.
Christian F. Ostermann is Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sergey Sayle Radchenko
• Assisted by: Christian Ostermann (Editor), Ostermann Christian (Editor), Sergey Radchenko (Editor), Timothy Andrews Sayle (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032170640
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217064-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; NATO, HISTORY / Military / General, Warfare & defence, Political structures: democracy, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)