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Summary
Reflecting on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at 70, and the organisation’s eventful history, this book challenges the traditional crisis-led approach that sees crises as key driving forces that pushed the alliance in radically new directions. It assesses the long-term development of NATO since its foundation.
Based on a wide range of case studies and on multinational archival research, the chapters in this book demonstrate the continuous effort of the NATO member states to build a shared political space and a common security thinking to enhance the Alliance resilience and deterrent function. The authors also correct the common tendency to focus on either the political or the military dimension of the Alliance. They show the deeply ingrained interdependence between the two and how their complexity has shaped the work, strategy, and development of NATO over time.
Thanks to its innovative approach and long-term scope, this volume offers new exciting insights into the history of the Alliance.
This book comprises articles originally published in Cold War History.
Table of contents
Foreword
Diego A. Ruiz Palmer
Introduction - Writing the History of NATO: A new agenda
Linda Risso
1. A nominal defence? NATO threat perception and responses in the Balkan area, 1951–1967
Dionysios Chourchoulis
2. Out-of-area: NATO perceptions of the Third World, 1957–1967
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
3. Defeating the General: Anglo-American Relations, Europe and the NATO Crisis of 1966
James Ellison
4. Propaganda on wheels: The NATO travelling exhibitions in the 1950s and 1960s
Linda Risso
5. Favouritism in NATO’s Southeastern flank: The case of the Greek Colonels, 1967–74
Konstantina Maragkou
6. ‘Footnoting’ as a political instrument: Denmark's NATO policy in the 1980s
Nikolaj Petersen
7. "A mass psychosis": The Netherlands and NATO’s dual-track decision, 1978–1979
Ruud van Dijk
8. General Lyman L. Lemnitzer and NATO, 1948–1969: A Deferential Leader
Lawrence S. Kaplan
9. The NATO-Warsaw Pact competition in the 1970s and 1980s: a revolution in military affairs in the making or the end of a strategic age?
Diego A. Ruiz Palmer