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almafu_9958351703602883
Format:
1 online resource :
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ISBN:
9780231502399
Series Statement:
A Council on Foreign Relations Book
Content:
How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment to the old continent in decades? Written by a high-level insider, Opening NATO's Door provides a definitive account of the ideas, politics, and diplomacy that went into the historic decision to expand NATO to Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the still-classified archives of the U.S. Department of State, Ronald D. Asmus recounts how and why American policy makers, against formidable odds at home and abroad, expanded NATO as part of a broader strategy to overcome Europe's Cold War divide and to modernize the Alliance for a new era.Asmus was one of the earliest advocates and intellectual architects of NATO enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism in the early 1990s and subsequently served as a top aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, responsible for European security issues. He was involved in the key negotiations that led to NATO's decision to extend invitations to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and finally, the U.S. Senate's ratification of enlargement.Asmus documents how the Clinton Administration sought to develop a rationale for a new NATO that would bind the U.S. and Europe together as closely in the post-Cold War era as they had been during the fight against communism. For the Clinton Administration, NATO enlargement became the centerpiece of a broader agenda to modernize the U.S.-European strategic partnership for the future. That strategy reflected an American commitment to the spread of democracy and Western values, the importance attached to modernizing Washington's key alliances for an increasingly gl
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Foreword --
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Acknowledgments --
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Note on Sources --
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Introduction --
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Book I. The Origins --
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Book II. The Debate Begins --
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Book III. Across the Rubicon --
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Book IV. Establishing the Dual Track --
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Book V. Toward a New NATO --
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Book VI. The NATO-Russia Endgame --
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Book VII. Head-to-Head at Madrid --
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Book VIII. The Political Battle --
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Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/asmu12776
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/asmu12776
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