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

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Description for Opening NATO´s Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era Paperback. 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 globalized world, and the fact that the Clinton Administration looked to Europe as America's natural partner. Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book. Num Pages: 415 pages, 16 photos. BIC Classification: 1QFN; 3JJP; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
415
Condition
New
Series
A Council on Foreign Relations Book
Number of Pages
415
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231127776
SKU
V9780231127776
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About Ronald Asmus
Ronald D. Asmus is senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. This book was written while he was a senior fellow at CFR from 2000 to 2002. He served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe from 1997 to 2000.

Reviews for Opening NATO´s Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era
Asmus has written a detailed insider's account of NATO enlargement.
Robert McGeehan Journal of American Studies Detailed... impressive... Asmus gives a fair picture of the fierce divisions within the administration, and he records the caution of several allies and the changes of mood in Moscow at a time when the alliance was deeply internally divided over the Yugoslav wars. ... Read more

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