1st Edition
Political Leadership In Nato A Study In Multinational Diplomacy
By Robert S Jordan
Copyright 1979
330 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
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This unusual history of the first four secretaries-general of NATO and their importance in the post-war politics of Western defense is a study of diplomacy–of individuals and the impact of their personalities on international events. It can perhaps best be described in terms of what it is not. It is not, for example, exclusively a book on NATO, nor is it a text on international organization. It is... Read more
Introduction -- Lord Ismay: The "Old Soldier" Turned Diplomat, 1952–1957 -- Paul-Henri Spaak's Effort at Forging an Alliance Diplomacy, 1957–1961 -- Dirk Stikker: Caught Between Détente, France, and Europe, 1961-1964 -- Manlio Brosio: A Diplomat's Diplomat, 1964–1971 -- Conclusion: Can the Office Transcend the Organization? -- Leading NATO Figures, 1952–1971 -- The North Atlantic Treaty, April 1949 -- Selection from the Report of the Committee of Three on Nonmilitary Cooperation in NATO, December 1956 -- The "Athens Guidelines," May 1962 -- The Ottawa Decisions (Nuclear Planning), May 1963 -- The Future Tasks of the Alliance (Harmel Report), December 1967 -- Appendix 7: Final Communiqué of the Ministerial Meeting of the North Atlantic Council (Czechoslovakia), November 1968
Biography
Robert Jordan has been professor of political science at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is now adjunct professor of political science at Columbia University. He also serves as director of research at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He holds doctorates from Princeton and Oxford universities.
