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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Charles G. CoganPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780275957049ISBN 10: 0275957047 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 30 June 1997 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction ""The Russian Hope"" and its Disappointments The Attempt at a Renewal of the Entente Cordiale The Turn toward Europe: The Brussels Treaty and the Western Union The Turn Toward Washington: The North Atlantic Treaty The Alliance Produces an Organization: NATO NATO Produces an Integrated Command The Return of the Supreme Commander Epilogue"ReviewsAs NATO reorganizes itself, and France and the United States struggle to impose their competing interests and visions on the Alliance, the story of France's role in NATO's creation takes on new significance. Replete with fascinating anecdotes and citations, thoroughly researched, and clearly written, [this work] makes valuable reading for anyone interested in these issues, then or now. Fifty years later, these events have a resonance and meaning that current decision-makers would be unwise to ignore. -Dr. Philip Gordon Editor, Survival """A splendid, carefully nuanced study, [this book] sheds new light not only on the early history of NATO but on strains within NATO in the post-Cold War era.""-Ernest R. May Charles Warren Professor of American History Harvard University ""As NATO reorganizes itself, and France and the United States struggle to impose their competing interests and visions on the Alliance, the story of France's role in NATO's creation takes on new significance. Replete with fascinating anecdotes and citations, thoroughly researched, and clearly written, [this work] makes valuable reading for anyone interested in these issues, then or now. Fifty years later, these events have a resonance and meaning that current decision-makers would be unwise to ignore.""-Dr. Philip Gordon Editor, ""Survival"" ""Charles Cogan's examination of France's ambivalence toward the Atlantic alliance illuminates the sources of many of the problems France has with American leadership of the alliance in the 1990s. He has made an authoritative and objective contribution to NATO historiography in a relatively neglected area of NATO's formative years.""-Prof. Lawrence R. Kaplan Kent State University Author of NATO and the United States: the Enduring Alliance ?[A]merican policy makers would certainly profit by studying Cogan's excellent account of the challenges and dilemmas faced by their predecessors.?-Political Science Quarterly ?There is much to be learned from a reading of this concise and economically written book. For instance, most of us knew that Roosevelt did not think much of the Free French and was put off by de Gaulle's magisterial style; but how many knew that Roosevelt (and Hopkins) truly abominated him.... Much of the diplomacy of the WWII years can be written as though the major participants were in a private room with de Gaulle, trying to climb through the transom.... Cogan earns readers' plaudits for making these bewildering episodes understandable...?-Choice ""ÝA¨merican policy makers would certainly profit by studying Cogan's excellent account of the challenges and dilemmas faced by their predecessors.""-Political Science Quarterly ""[A]merican policy makers would certainly profit by studying Cogan's excellent account of the challenges and dilemmas faced by their predecessors.""-Political Science Quarterly ""There is much to be learned from a reading of this concise and economically written book. For instance, most of us knew that Roosevelt did not think much of the Free French and was put off by de Gaulle's magisterial style; but how many knew that Roosevelt (and Hopkins) truly abominated him.... Much of the diplomacy of the WWII years can be written as though the major participants were in a private room with de Gaulle, trying to climb through the transom.... Cogan earns readers' plaudits for making these bewildering episodes understandable...""-Choice" Author InformationCHARLES G. COGAN is an Associate of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and an Affiliate of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: the United States and France Since 1940 (Praeger, 1994) and Charles de Gaulle: A Brief Biography with Documents (1996). Cogan spent 37 years in the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1979 to 1984 he was chief of the Operations Directorate's Near East and South Asia Division. He was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal in 1989. In the same year, he was assigned to the Intelligence and Policy Project at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and after leaving the CIA earned a doctorate in public administration from Harvard in 1992. His published articles have dealt primarily with French-American relations, with the Middle East, and with intelligence and defense issues. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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