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Imagining war in Europe : Soviet strategic planning / Vojtech Mastny -- Storming on to Paris : the 1961 Buria exercise and the planned solution of the Berlin crisis / Matthias Uhl -- War plans from Stalin to Brezhnev : the Czechoslovak pivot / Petr Luňák -- The Warsaw Pact's special target : planning the seizure of Denmark / Frede P. Jensen -- "Is this the best they can do?" : Henry Kissinger and the US quest for limited nuclear options, 1969-75 / William Burr -- Silent allies and hostile neutrals : nonaligned states in the Cold War / Wilhelm Agrell -- The politics of military planning : evolution of NATO's strategy / Andreas Wenger -- Alliance of democracies and nuclear deterrence / Beatrice Heuser -- Securing small-state interests : Norway in NATO / Kjell Inge Bjerga and Kjetil Skogrand -- How strong was the "weakest link"? : Danish security policy reconsidered / Jonathan Søborg Agger and Trine Engholm Michelsen -- "To defend or not to defend" : drawing the line in the Netherlands / Jan Hoffenaar -- McNamara, Vietnam, and the defense of Europe / Lawrence S. Kaplan.

This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective. Based on previously unknown archival evidence from both East and West, the twelve essays in the book focus on the potential European battlefield rather than the strategic competition between the superpowers. They present conclusions about the nature of the Soviet threat that could previously only be speculated about and analyze the interaction between m.

"Written by a group of leading experts on Arctic affairs, this book offers a historically informed and comprehensive study of the geopolitics and security challenges of the Arctic. The key aim of the work is to identify the conditions for cooperation, stability and peace in the Arctic and to reach beyond simple description and expectation in order to explore in depth some of the main factors that will determine the future of international relations in the Arctic. Furthermore, it addresses key topics such as the geopolitical significance of the Arctic, the importance of oil and gas resources in the Arctic, and it questions what the main characteristics of governance in the Arctic are, and how institutions and regimes can promote stability and security in the region. The volume maintains three layers of focus. The first relates to Russia, the biggest stakeholder in the Artic. The second relates to the dynamics within the Arctic and the third layer relates to developments outside the region, highlighting that we cannot understand the Arctic in isolation from global developments such as energy markets, security conflicts and NATO-Russian antagonism. This book will be of much interest to students of Arctic politics, security studies, geopolitics, Russian and Scandinavian politics, and international relations in general"--