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Author: Stanley R. Sloan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1441182284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an interpretive analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration.
Author: Stanley R. Sloan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1441138056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Stanley Sloan has for many years been one of the most influential and authoritative analysts of the NATO Alliance. In his new book Permanent Alliance? he demonstrates once again his in-depth knowledge of NATO issues and his sound, balanced judgements of both the strengths and weaknesses of the Alliance as it strives to adapt to the 21st-century security challenges. This book should be at the top of the list for anyone who wants to understand today's NATO." Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO "Stanley Sloan, a distinguished NATO analyst, has been thinking, lecturing, and writing about the transatlantic bargain for over a generation. In this, his third book on the subject, he has produced a masterly re-examination of the sixty-year relationship between America and Europe. Cautiously optimistic about NATO's future, this authoritative study should be welcomed by scholars and policymakers alike. It will be a valuable text for my NATO history classes." Lawrence S. Kaplan, Emeritus Director, Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University "Sloan's book is an outstanding study on the subject matter of transatlantic relations. He is an original thinker, an experienced researcher and---clearly visible---loves the subject matter. This study is a must both for teachers and students of political science and contemporary history." Bram Boxhoorn, Director, Netherlands Atlantic Association "I read Stan Sloan as I began teaching NATO affairs decades ago. I continue to read him today to learn. You will as well---read him." Lawrence Chalmer, National Defense University Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama examines how US-European relations are evolving in response to the many global trends that are changing the strategic environment for that relationship. The Obama Administration has taken responsibility for US participation in the transatlantic alliance as the allies prepare to implement a new strategic concept and try to shape NATO's future in view of these trends and the alliance's experience in Afghanistan. In this light, Sloan assesses whether NATO is becoming the permanent alliance President George Washington warned us against, or if it is nearing the end of its utility.
Author: Geoffrey Lee Williams
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indeholder kapitlerne: The Origins of the Western Alliance; The Western Military Posture; Total diplomatic Deadlock; The Suez Crisis; The Central Power Balance; The MLF Debate and the Growth of Europeanism; The Growth of the East-West Detente; Crisis in the Far East; The Vietnam War and the Threatened Use of Nuclear Weapons; The Vietnam War and the Gaullist Critique; Some Early Strategic Implications of the Vietnam War; America and China:The Shadow confrontation; Britains Imperial Role and Her Continental Commitment; Britain Stands down; Moves Towards a Condominimum: The Rise and Fall of Convergence Theories; An End to Soviet-American Confrontation?; Defence, Deterrence and Detente; The European-American Partnership in the Era of Negotiation; The Strategic Dialogue and the European-American Partnership; The Era of Multilateral Diplomacy; Alliance Divergence; The Evolving American-Soviet Relationship; The Growing Menace to International Stability; An End to the European-American partnership?; The Need for a Super-Super Power Relationship?;
Author: Michael Wesley
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2017-06-28
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1760461180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during the 20th century, the multilateral NATO alliance system in Europe and the bilateral San Francisco alliance system in Asia rarely interacted. This changed in the early 21st century, as US allies came together to fight and stabilise conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia. This volume presents the first-ever comparative study of US alliances in Europe and Asia from the perspectives of US allies: the challenges, opportunities and shifting dynamics of these fundamental pillars of order. This volume is essential reading for those interested in contemporary and future regional and global security dynamics.
Author: G. Williams
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1977-08-23
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Indeholder kapitlerne: The Origins of the Western Alliance; The Western Military Posture; Total diplomatic Deadlock; The Suez Crisis; The Central Power Balance; The MLF Debate and the Growth of Europeanism; The Growth of the East-West Detente; Crisis in the Far East; The Vietnam War and the Threatened Use of Nuclear Weapons; The Vietnam War and the Gaullist Critique; Some Early Strategic Implications of the Vietnam War; America and China:The Shadow confrontation; Britains Imperial Role and Her Continental Commitment; Britain Stands down; Moves Towards a Condominimum: The Rise and Fall of Convergence Theories; An End to Soviet-American Confrontation?; Defence, Deterrence and Detente; The European-American Partnership in the Era of Negotiation; The Strategic Dialogue and the European-American Partnership; The Era of Multilateral Diplomacy; Alliance Divergence; The Evolving American-Soviet Relationship; The Growing Menace to International Stability; An End to the European-American partnership?; The Need for a Super-Super Power Relationship?;
Author: Jason Blessing
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1947661116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the world’s largest, most powerful military alliance. The Alliance has navigated and survived the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the post-9/11 era. Since the release of the 2010 Strategic Concept, NATO’s strategic environment has again undergone significant change. The need to adapt is clear. An opportunity to assess the Alliance’s achievements and future goals has now emerged with the Secretary General’s drive to create a new Strategic Concept for the next decade—an initiative dubbed NATO 2030. A necessary step for formulating a new strategic outlook will thus be understanding the future that faces NATO. To remain relevant and adjust to new circumstances, the Alliance must identify its main challenges and opportunities in the next ten years and beyond. This book contributes to critical conversations on NATO’s future vitality by examining the Alliance’s most salient issues and by offering recommendations to ensure its effectiveness moving forward. Written by a diverse, multigenerational group of policymakers and academics from across Europe and the United States, this book provides new insights about NATO’s changing threat landscape, its shifting internal dynamics, and the evolution of warfare. The volume’s authors tackle a wide range of issues, including the challenges of Russia and China, democratic backsliding, burden sharing, the extension of warfare to space and cyberspace, partnerships, and public opinion. With rigorous assessments of NATO’s challenges and opportunities, each chapter provides concrete recommendations for the Alliance to chart a path for the future. As such, this book is an indispensable resource for NATO’s strategic planners and security and defense experts more broadly.
Author: Jesse Kauffman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0674286014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany’s ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany built for its satellite state could not alleviate Poland’s hostility to the plundering of its resources to fuel Germany’s war effort.
Author: Timothy Andrews Sayle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-04-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1501735527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Ronald Angelo Johnson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0820342122
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This will be the first monograph-length study of U.S. diplomacy toward Saint-Domingue during the Adams administration. The book offers a detailed examination of the relationship between U.S. President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture, military commander of the French colony Saint-Domingue. Ronald Johnson presents the complex history of the bilateral relations between these two Atlantic leaders representing the first diplomatic relationship the United States had with a government of black leaders. Over the course of seven chapters, Johnson looks beyond the diplomacy itself to find the long lasting effects it had on the evolving meanings of race, the struggles over emancipation, and the formation of an African identity in the Atlantic world. Johnson argues that this brief moment of cross-cultural cooperation, while not changing racial traditions immediately, helped to set the stage for incremental changes in American and Atlantic world discussions of race well into the twentieth-century. Diplomacy in Black and White suggests that President John Adams and his administration abetted the idea of independence for people of color on the island of Hispaniola. This proposal represents an interpretative shift in the historiography. The book illuminates U.S. diplomacy in Saint-Domingue to explain how Americans and Dominguans worked together as relatively equal partners, occupying a similar position within a volatile Atlantic context"--
