NATO: Its Past, Present, and Future

by Peter Duignan

Overview

NATO: Its Past, Present, and Future tells the complete story of the most successful peacetime venture in Western cooperation, from the historic alliance's shaky beginnings to its cold war triumphs, failures and successes, as well as its recent enlargement and its controversial involvement in the Yugoslav imbroglio.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817997823
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Peter J. Duignan was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He wrote extensively on comparative colonial history, modern European history, African documentation and bibliography, Hispanics in the United States, U.S. foreign policy, Africa, immigration to the United States, and the Atlantic Alliance (the U.S. and Europe since 1945). He died in 2012.

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
Part I	The Origins of Nato, 1949-1960	1
	The Birth of NATO	2
	The Shaky Balance	6
	NATO: Organization and Strategy	9
Part II	Nato: From Defense to Deterrence	19
	The Debate over Nuclear Weapons	21
	Quarrels over Burden-Sharing	24
	Was There a Real Soviet Threat?	26
	Partnership of Unequal Partners	29
	National Components	32
Part III	Nato: From Defense to Detente	43
	Defense, Victory, and Reorganization	44
	Imperial Breakup	49
	NATO and the New Order in East-Central Europe	56
	Reorganization of NATO	59
	NATO Enlargement	61
	Post-Cold War Euro-American Relations	66
	The Continuing Debate over Enlarging NATO	69
	NATO's New Members	76
Part IV	The Yugoslav Imbroglio	85
	Politics in Kosovo	92
	Conducting the Air War in Kosovo	94
	UN-KFOR in Kosovo	99
	NATO after Kosovo	107
Part V	The Future of Nato	113
	"De-Balkanizing the Balkans"	114
	NATO in the Next Decade	118
	Postscript	125
	Bosnia and Kosovo Report Card for NATO	125
	Kosovo: The Way Out of the Quagmire	132
	Bibliographic Notes	137
	Index	141

Editorial Reviews

Looks at the 50-year history of NATO, the most successful alliance system in the history of the world. Recounts NATO's origins, then charts the ongoing conflicts between allies over d<'e>tente and their respective contributions to the alliance. Chronicles the organization's pivotal role during the Cold War, and details the reorganization of NATO in the 1990s and its cooperative arrangements with former Warsaw Pact members, examining the development of the new post-Cold War European-American relationship, and present-day challenges involving Yugoslavia and Kosovo. The author is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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