Permanent Alliance?: NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama
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...
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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.
Foreword by the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton ixAcknowledgments xiNATO and EU Maps xiiiList of Acronyms xvPart I Cold War AllianceChapter 1 The Bargain as a Framework for Analysis 3Chapter 2 Genesis of the Bargain 16Chapter 3 The Transatlantic Bargain Revised 31Chapter 4 The Bargain through the Cold War, 1954-1989 43Chapter 5 The United States and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors 74Part II Post-Cold War AllianceChapter 6 NATO Outreach and Enlargement: The Legacy of Harmel 93Chapter 7 NATO and Russia: Partnership or New Cold War? 129Chapter 8 NATO's Post-Cold War Military Missions in Theory and Practice 147Chapter 9 NATO in Afghanistan 187Chapter 10 European Security and Defense Policy and the Transatlantic Bargain 212Chapter 11 Implications of the Bush, 9/11, and Iraq Shocks for the Transatlantic Bargain 241Part III Permanent Alliance?Chapter 12 Is NATO Necessary but Not Sufficient? 267Chapter 13 Permanent Alliance? 283Appendix The North Atlantic Treaty: Washington D.C.-April 4, 1949 292Select Bibliography 296About the Author 302Index 303
