Enduring Alliance

Andrews Sayle Timothy

Description

Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO.As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs.

Sujets

• Histoire
• International relations
• NATO
• Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501735516
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

Extrait

ENDURINGALLIANCE

ENDURING ALLIANCE AHistoryofNATOandthe Postwar Global Order

TimothyAndrewsSayle

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2019 by Cornell University Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Firstpublished2019byCornellUniversityPress Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Sayle, Timothy A., author. Title: Enduring alliance : a history of NATO and the postwar global order / Timothy A. Sayle. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018047435 (print) | LCCN 2018048277 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501735516 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501735523 (ret) | ISBN 9781501735509 | ISBN 9781501735509 (cloth ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: North Atlantic Treaty Organization—History. | Europe, Western—Defenses—History—20th century. | World politics—1945–1989. | Cold War. | United States—Foreign relations—1945–1989. Classification: LCC D845.2 (ebook) | LCC D845.2 .S29 2019 (print) | DDC 355/.031091821—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047435

ForNicole,Henry,andCharles

Contents

 Introduction: The Dangers of Democracy 1.  The Specter of Appeasement 2.  The Apple Cart 3.  Tied Together by History 4.  A Profound Bitterness 5.  The Limits of Integration 6.  The New Tripartitism 7.  An Alliance for Peace 8.  Busting Europe 9.  Leaderless Men 10.  Promises Are Never Enough  Conclusion: Looking Forward, Looking Back

Acknowledgments ANoteonSources Notes Index

1

11

28

50

76

100

119

147

167

191

216

241

251 253 261 337

ENDURINGALLIANCE