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

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

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. NATO’s history, now running over seventy years, can no longer be framed in Cold War terms alone. Nor can the organization be understood fully as a post-Cold War... Read more

Introduction - NATO: Past & Present 
Sergey Radchenko, Timothy Andrews Sayle and Christian Ostermann 
1. ‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995 
Sergey Radchenko 
2. Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992 
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson 
3. The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement 
Liviu Horovitz and Elias Götz 
4. An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states’ road to NATO membership 
Andres Kasekamp 
5. Debating détente: NATO’s Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s 
Susan Colbourn 
6. A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group 
Timothy Andrews Sayle 
7. The zero option and NATO’s dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox 
Andreas Lutsch 
8. Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc 
Jeffrey H. Michaels 
9. NATO’s inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations 
Ruud van Dijk and Stanley R. Sloan 

Biography

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.