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Opening NATO's Door : How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Asmus, Ronald D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. Departmen.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (425 pages)
ISBN:9780231502399
0231502397
0231127774
9780231127776