The Warsaw Pact (Warsaw Treaty Organization).
Author: Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security
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Published: 1989
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Published: 1989
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Erik Richardson
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1502627213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The looming threat of Communist expansion led the United States and eleven Western nations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Responding to NATO, the Soviet Union and the Communist Eastern bloc formed the Warsaw Pact. European nations soon aligned with one of the opposing military forces. This book takes a closer look at how NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Iron Curtain played a role in the sharp political division between the West and East.
Author: Daniel N. Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 0429712227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do alliances, in the aggregate, "behave"? What explains the actions and performance of alliances? Within alliances, how do members' actions and performance vary, and what explains that variance? This book addresses these questions with respect to one of the world's principal alliances of the late twentieth century, the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO), also known as the Warsaw Pact. The author argues that though we understand a great deal about the military hardware of the Warsaw Pact, little is known about its reliability, cohesiveness, and the distribution of military burden within it--all key variables, he argues, in influencing change in alliance behavior. In each chapter he offers a new way to measure one of these variables and suggests possible explanations for variance. In addition, he examines the effect East-West relations have on cohesion and how Warsaw Pact allies have distributed the defense effort in the past. A concluding chapter is devoted to an empirical assessment of Warsaw Pact alliance behavior, combining indicators of cohesion, reliability, and burden-sharing in a general portrait of the WTO as a collective actor in international politics.
Author: Neil Fodor
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive study of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. The author examines the historical events which led to its formation, its development as a military machine, and focuses on both the political and the military aspects of the WTO and its international relations with non-WTO countries.
Author: Robert W. Clawson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 336
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Author: Laurien Crump
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1317555309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact inadvertently provided its members with an opportunity to assert their own interests, emancipate themselves from the Soviet grip, and influence Soviet bloc policy. Laurien Crump traces this development through six thematic case studies, which deal with such well known events as the building of the Berlin Wall, the Sino-Soviet Split, the Vietnam War, the nuclear question, and the Prague Spring. By interpreting hitherto neglected archival evidence from archives in Berlin, Bucharest, and Rome, and approaching the Soviet alliance from a radically novel perspective, the book offers unexpected insights into international relations in Eastern Europe, while shedding new light on a pivotal period in the Cold War.
Author: Vojtech Mastny
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2005-04-10
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 6155053693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. As suggested by the title, the Soviet bloc military machine that held the West in awe for most of the Cold War does not appear from the inside as formidable as outsiders often believed, nor were its strengths and weaknesses the same at different times in its surprisingly long history, extending for almost half a century. The introductory study by Mastny assesses the controversial origins of the "superfluous" alliance, its subsequent search for a purpose, its crisis and consolidation despite congenital weaknesses, as well as its unexpected demise. Most of the 193 documents included in the book were top secret and have only recently been obtained from Eastern European archives by the PHP project. The majority of the documents were translated specifically for this volume and have never appeared in English before. The introductory remarks to individual documents by co-editor Byrne explain the particular significance of each item. A chronology of the main events in the history of the Warsaw Pact, a list of its leading officials, a selective multilingual bibliography, and an analytical index add to the importance of a publication that sets the new standard as a reference work on the subject and facilitate its use by both students and general readers.
Author: Gerard Holden
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the military and political functioning of the Warsaw Treaty Organization as a major factor in European bloc politics and an important element in Soviet security policy. The author traces the growth and functioning of the alliance's political institutions.