The long entanglement : NATO's first fifty years / Lawrence S. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Lawrence S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Physical Description:

xii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.

Summary:

Concentrates on the long entanglement between the United States and NATO, elaborating on the ability of the allies to surmount their internal divisions and to confront their Soviet adversary.

Contents:

I. Origins of the Alliance, 1948-1949

1. An Unequal Triad: The United States, the Western Union, and NATO 7

2. The "Atlantic" Component of NATO 29

3. The Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949 37

II. NATO in the First Generation, 1950-1967

4. The Impact of Sputnik on NATO 65

5. The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962: Views from the Pentagon 77

6. Les debats strategiques 99

III. NATO in the Second Generation, 1968-1989

7. The U.S. and NATO in the Johnson Years 121

8. NATO and the Nixon Doctrine: Ten Years Later 149

9. The INF Treaty and the Future of NATO: Lessons from the 1960s 165

IV. NATO in the Third Generation, from 1991

10. NATO after the Cold War 185

11. NATO at Fifty 203

12. NATO: A Counterfactual History 221

Appendix The North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-245) and index.

ISBN:

0275964183

0275964191

OCLC:

39765268