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North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Imprint2018
Descriptionxvi, 359 pages ; 21 cm.
Note:Documents -- The North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, DC, April 4, 1949 -- Speech delivered by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946 -- The Pentagon Paper, Washington, DC, April 1, 1948 -- Speech delivered by Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Belgium Paul-Henri Spaak, Paris, September 28, 1948 -- Nationwide radio address delivered by Secretary of State Acheson, March 18, 1949 -- Speeches delivered at the treaty signing ceremony, Washington, DC, April 4, 1949 -- Statement by President Truman on the coming into effect of the North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, DC, August 24, 1949 -- North Atlantic Military Committee Decision on M.C. 48 (Final), November 22, 1954 -- C.M. (55) 15 (Final), "Security within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," March 8, 1955 -- Report of the Committee of Three on Non-Military Cooperation in NATO, New York, December 1956 -- Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of foreign ministers final communique, Turnberry, Scotland, June 7, 1990 -- Declaration on a transformed North Atlantic Alliance issued by the heads of state and government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council, London, July 6, 1990 -- The Alliance's New Strategic Concept, London, November 8, 1991 -- The Alliance's Strategic Concept, Washington, DC, April 24, 1999 -- Strategic Concept for the Defence and Security of the Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Lisbon, November 19, 2010 -- Part 1. The evolution of the Alliance -- NATO's radical response to the nuclear revolution / Francis J. Gavin -- NATO and nuclear proliferation, 1949-1968 / Alexandre Debs and Nuno P. Monteiro -- The contest over NATO's future : the US, France, and the concept of pan-Europeanism after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989-1990 / Mary Elise Sarotte -- Part 2. Current challenges -- Toward an open and accountable NATO / Ian Davis -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization : is NATO a force fit for a new century? / General Sir Graeme Lamb -- Organizational survival : NATO's pragmatic functionalism / Joana Spear -- NATO's charter : adaptable but limited / James Goldgeier -- NATO, regionalism, and the responsibility to protect / Anne Orford -- Conclusion : another Cold War? NATO and the new Russia / Adam Tooze and Ian Shapiro.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:The most important military alliance in the world, NATO shaped the geopolitical contours of the Cold War and continues to structure the contemporary international system. The NATO agreement is reprinted here with essential historical documents and speeches concerning the alliance's founding and subsequent evolution. Accompanying essays by major scholars discuss debates about NATO's evolving governance, its role in nuclear politics, and its appropriate mission during the Cold War and since.-- Provided by publisher.
