1st Edition

NATO at 70 A Historiographical Approach

Edited By Linda Risso Copyright 2019
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Reflecting on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at 70, and the organisation’s eventful history, this book challenges the traditional crisis-led approach that sees crises as key driving forces that pushed the alliance in radically new directions. It assesses the long-term development of NATO since its foundation. Based on a wide range of case studies and on multinational archival... Read more

Foreword  Introduction - Writing the History of NATO: A new agenda  1. A nominal defence? NATO threat perception and responses in the Balkan area, 1951–1967  2. Out-of-area: NATO perceptions of the Third World, 1957–1967  3. Defeating the General: Anglo-American Relations, Europe and the NATO Crisis of 1966  4. Propaganda on wheels: The NATO travelling exhibitions in the 1950s and 1960s  5. Favouritism in NATO’s Southeastern flank: The case of the Greek Colonels, 1967–74  6. ‘Footnoting’ as a political instrument: Denmark's NATO policy in the 1980s  7. "A mass psychosis": The Netherlands and NATO’s dual-track decision, 1978–1979  8. General Lyman L. Lemnitzer and NATO, 1948–1969: A Deferential Leader  9. The NATO-Warsaw Pact competition in the 1970s and 1980s: a revolution in military affairs in the making or the end of a strategic age?

Biography



Linda Risso is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, UK. Her research focuses on the historical development of NATO and on the legacies of the Cold War on today’s security and strategic thinking. She is the author of Propaganda and intelligence in the Cold War: The NATO Information Service (2014).