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Provides a survey of the principal items on the agenda following the end of the Cold War, focusing upon the institutions and regions where the reconsideration of security issues has been particularly profound. The book is organised into three main sections: the first examines the changed roles of the main security institutions which have survived the Cold War; NATO, the European Union/Western European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second analyses the Central European countries, Russia and States of the former Soviet Union in terms of their ideologies, political structures and relationships of the Cold War period. Lastly the text examines the northern and southern regions of Europe where quite different perspectives and agendas are concerned.

Provides a survey of the principal items on the agenda following the end of the Cold War, focusing upon the institutions and regions where the reconsideration of security issues has been particularly profound. The book is organised into three main sections: the first examines the changed roles of the main security institutions which have survived the Cold War; NATO, the European Union/Western European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The second analyses the Central European countries, Russia and States of the former Soviet Union in terms of their ideologies, p

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for NATO in the Post-Cold War Era -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: NATO in Its Seventh Decade-A Reappraisal -- History's Most Successful Alliance Needs Better Publicity -- NATO Evolution During the Cold War -- A Flexible Treaty -- NATO Operations After the Cold War -- Bibliography -- 2 The Historical Roots of the Atlantic Alliance Between Values and Interests -- The Short Term Path to the Atlantic Pact -- The United States: 'Necessary but Undesirable' -- Failed Efforts to Create an 'Atlantic Community': The Debate on Art. 2 in the 1950s -- Conclusion: Increasingly Diverging Perspectives After the Cold War, but Still Very Close -- Bibliography -- 3 A Troublesome Relationship: The US Grand Strategy and NATO -- The Cold War: An Age of Consensus? -- From 11/9 to 9/11: The Legacy of a 'Lost' Decade? -- The Age of Disenchantment: 9/11 to 11/9 -- The US 'Pivot to Asia': Another Challenge to the Atlantic Alliance? -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 4 Russia-NATO-US: From Detente to Impossible Cooperation -- Bibliography -- 5 The Anglo-American Special Relationship and NATO: The Past and the Present as Indicators of What Might Come Next? -- Introduction -- The Most Equal -- SACLANT and Anglo-American Relations -- The SNF Crisis and Anglo-American Relations -- Post-Cold War Relations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6 The Role of NATO in European Integration -- Introduction -- Automatism and Discrimination: European Defence Before the North Atlantic Treaty: 1947-1949 -- The Conditioned De-discrimination: Germany, the Failure of the EDC, and the Creation of the WEU (1950-1954) -- The Pleven Plan and the European Defence Community (EDC) -- The Western European Union (WEU) and West German Rearmament Within NATO.

This book analyses the evolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its policies from the Cold War until today. NATOs future cannot be fully understood without analysing its past: the origins of its structure and goals, and their transformation over time. By exploring NATOs geopolitical and military role at crucial points throughout history, this edited volume considers the challenges and threats which have faced the alliance, as well as its strengths and weaknesses. It covers highly-debated and unresolved issues such as budgetary burden-sharing and the military transatlantic gap, the enlargement process, and the role of Asia in influencing NATOs policies. Combining a historical approach with international perspectives, this book is an interdisciplinary read that will appeal to scholars of diplomatic history and international relations. Chapters 1 and 2 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Massimo de Leonardis is Professor Emeritus of History of Treaties and International Politics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy, President of the International Commission of Military History and Editor of the Quaderni di Scienze Politiche. He has written and edited 27 books, and sits on the boards of various Italian and international journals and institutions.

Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Beyond the Divide -- Part I - Political Processes and Transnational Networks -- Chapter 1 - Opening Up Political Space: Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki Process -- Chapter 3 - Transmitting the ""Freedom Virus"": France, the USSR, and Cultural Aspects of European Security Cooperation -- Chapter 4 - Cultural Diplomacy of Switzerland and the Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956-75 -- Part II - Interplay in the Academic Contexts

Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms