Permanent Alliance? : NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama

No extract of this content is available for preview Permanent Alliance? Nato And Transatlantic Bargain From Truman To Obama Examines How Us-european Relations Are Evolving In Response To Many Global Trends That Are Changing The Strategic Environment For That Relationship. Pt. I: Cold War Alliance -- The Bargain As A Framework For Analysis -- Genesis Of The Bargain -- The Transatlantic Bargain Revised -- The Bargain Through The Cold War, 1954-1989 -- The United States And Europe At The End Of The Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors -- Pt. Ii: Post-cold War Alliance -- Nato Outreach And Enlargement: The Legacy Of Harmel -- Nato And Russia: Partnership Or New Cold War? -- Nato's Post-cold War Military Missions In Theory And Practice -- Nato In Afghanistan -- European Security And Defense Policy And The Transatlantic Bargain -- Implications Of The Bush, 9/11, And Iraq Shocks For The Transatlantic Bargain -- Pt. Iii: Permanent Alliance? -- Is Nato Necessary But Not Sufficient? -- Permanent Alliance? By Stanley R. Sloan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama examines how US-European relations are evolving in response to the many global trends that are changing the strategic environment for that relationship. The Obama Administration has taken responsibility for US participation in the transatlantic alliance as the allies prepare to implement a new strategic concept and try to shape NATO's future in view of these trends and the alliance's experience in Afghanistan. In this light, Sloan assesses whether NATO is becoming the permanent alliance President George Washington warned us against, or if it is nearing the end of its utility.

In Permanent Alliance? Stanley R. Sloan discusses the global trends that are changing the environment for transatlantic relations, such as European integration, global security, emerging powers, and the role of the United States as a world leader. A completely updated and refocused version of Sloan's previous work, NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community, the book now examines whether NATO has become the "permanent alliance" about which President George Washington warned or if it is nearing the end of its utility. Permanent Alliance? links historical development with contemporary Presents an analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration. This book discusses the global trends that are changing the environment for transatlantic relations, such as European integration, global security, emerging powers, and the role of the United States as a leader An interpretive analysis of the transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration, this text examines how US-European relations evolve in response to European integration, the relative decline of US power and emerging powers This book is an interpretive analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration.