NATO: The Founding of the Atlantic Alliance and the Integration of Europe [Hardcover]

Can NATO survive? The stimulating and highly original essays contained in this volume provide important new insights into why the treaty organization was formed, how it developed, and what it has contributed both to the security and to the integration of Europe. The authors examine NATO as a strong and intricate webbing holding together the nations of Europe as well as binding them to the United States as guarantor of free world stability. This book is essential to the re-examination now under way of NATO's role in the radically different post-Cold War world.Preface; F.H.Heller & J.R.Gillingham - Introduction; J.R.Gillingham - After 40 Years: NATO as a Research Field; L.S.Kaplan - From Neutrality to Alignment: Dutch Defence Policy 1945-1961; J.van der Harst - France and the North Atlantic Alliance; I.M.Wall - Britain, European Unity and NATO, 1947-1950; P.Foot - United States Security and the Integration of Italy into the Western Bloc, 1947-1949; E.T.Smith - American Defence Policy vis- -vis Europe; W.Krieger - Dean Acheson and European Unity; D.Brinkley - The Origins of America's Engagement in Europe, 1946-1952; K.Schwabe - Dual Containment: John J. McCloy, the American High Commission and European Integration, 1949-1952; T.A.Schwartz - The Role of the European Defence Community in European Integration; E.Fursdon - NATO, OEEC, and the Integration of Europe; A.Milward - U.S. Embargo Policy and European Security; V.Sorensen - American Military Aid and European Rearmament: The Italian Case; L.Sebesta - The Causes and Consequences of the 1956 West German Rearmament Crisis; W.L.Abelshauser - EDC and the Coordination of National Budgets; C.S.Maier - Conventional Goals versus Nuclear Promises: The Truman Administration and the Roots of the NATO New Look; R.A.Wampler - West German Nuclear and Defence Politics in the Early Fifties; P.Fischer - The Anglo-Saxon Triangle, the French and Western European Integration; K.A.Maier - The Nuclearization of NATO and U.S.-West EurolãÙ