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OverviewFor more than 40 years, the Atlantic Alliance has been the major U.S. foreign policy commitment of every administration. Through political and military commitments to 11, and ultimately 15, other nations, the United States through NATO had abandoned an isolationist tradition of more than 150 years. However, important as this step was, few historians of American foreign relations have given prominence to the alliance in their studies. In this volume, produced from a conference sponsored by the U.S. delegation to NATO in 1989, seven American diplomatic historians focus their attention (some for the first time) on the role of NATO in periods of their specialization in the post—World War II years. In almost all these essays, newly released materials in presidential libraries and in the National Archives have been used. The result is a history of the past 40 years of NATO from an American perspective, placing the alliance within the larger frame of America’s foreign policy as a superpower. The historians’ interpretations benefit from their intimacy with cognate issues on which each has written over the years. Whatever their individual interpretations, each reveals the important role. NATO has played in fashioning the “American Century.” Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence S. KaplanPublisher: Kent State University Press Imprint: Kent State University Press Weight: 0.312kg ISBN: 9780873384384ISBN 10: 0873384385 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 31 August 1991 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"The formation of the alliance, 1948-1949, Robert H. Ferrell; NATO and the Korean War - a context, Walter Lafeber; the American commitment to Germany, 1949-1955, Ernest R.May; Charles de Gaulle and the French withdrawal from NATO's integrated command, Samuel F.Wells, Jr; ""Nixingerism"", NATO and detente, Joan Hoff-Wilson; the SS-20 challenge and opportunity - the dual-track decision nd its consequences, 1977-1983, Gaddis Smith; the INF Treaty and the future of NATO - lessons from the 1960s, Lawrence S.Kaplan."ReviewsAuthor InformationLawrence S. Kaplan is Emeritus Director, Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Studies, Kent State University, and Professorial Lecturer in History, Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including NATO Divided, NATO United and most recently NATO 1948: The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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