NATO in Transition
Author : Timothy W. Stanley
Publisher : New York : Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by F.A. Praeger
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Timothy W. Stanley
Publisher : New York : Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by F.A. Praeger
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Myles Edwin Fladager
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Jaroslaw Jablonski
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Page : 75 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
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ISBN : 9781423507871
The accession of Poland into NATO in the spring of 1999 raises the question of how western attempts to transfer democratic institutions to new democracies in central Europe operated in reality as concerns reform and reaction. Among the obstacles to this process was a western ignorance shout domestic social challenges and political conflicts. These go hand in hand with the process of democratic transition and show themselves starkly in the case of Polish politics, society and military institutions in the years before 1999. While transitioning to democracy, Poland experienced two types of threats: one from civilian politicians who tried to use the military to accomplish their political goals, and another from military officers with political ambitions. After the collapse of communism in 1959, Polish military forces remained highly visible in domestic politics for almost a decade and the issue of civil-military relations was at the center of government crises on three occasions. Democratic civilian control over military, a requirement to join NATO, became one of the primary political goals of an overwhelming majority of Polish elites since society saw the membership as the best guarantee of national security and a peaceful future. Politicians and government officials who didn't accept or understand this determination were eventually voted out, dismissed, or now exist on the fringes of political life. NATO's plan for Poland to nova toward full membership in the alliance resulted in a peaceful democratic transition.
Author : Sergey Radchenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1000529312
This book examines episodes in NATO’s history from the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance in 1949 to its transition to the post-Cold War order in the 1990s, with an eye to better understanding its present and its future. NATO’s history, now running over seventy years, can no longer be framed in Cold War terms alone. Nor can the organization be understood fully as a post-Cold War institution. Today’s NATO is a product of both these eras. This edited volume offers a reconsideration of NATO’s place in history, looking both at how the alliance coped with the Cold War and how it managed its difficult transition to the post-Cold War international order. Contributors recount how NATO coped with its many political and operational challenges, which on occasion threatened – but never managed to – derail the alliance. The book opens new vistas for explaining how NATO thrived and survived for decades and ponders whether it will survive for many more. The book will be of great value to scholars, students and policymakers interested in Politics, International Studies, Global Affairs and Public Policy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Strategic Studies.
Author : Reiner Weichhardt
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Martin Glen Reeder
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Richard Latter
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Europe, Southern
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Based on Wilton Park Conference 327, 10-14 October 1988. PRICE REDUCED TO £1.00 1997
Author : Melissa Radford
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Europe
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Author : Keith A. Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429725833
Current NATO military strategy is based on the policy of flexible response that U.S. and European politicians endorsed in 1967; for over 15 years, no fundamental changes in NATO's defense strategy have occurred. If NATO cannot stop a Warsaw Pact aggression conventionally, it continues to threaten a gradual and controlled nuclear escalation of both theater and strategic nuclear weapons. Many analysts now question the fundamental principles underlying NATO's policy and strategy, given the enormous changes that have occurred in the strategic environment between 1967 and 1984. The contributors to this book examine the recent proposal by Samuel Huntington, who advocates that NATO adopt a conventional counter-retaliatory strategy based on offensive military actions deep into Eastern Europe. In evaluating this new proposal, the authors analyze the potential impact that it would have on U.S. and NATO military doctrine, assess probable European and Soviet reactions to NATO adopting a conventional counter-retaliatory strategy, and address the linkages existing between conventional and nuclear strategy. In the final chapter, the editors consider the policy, strategy, and force structure questions raised in the book and recommend policy options for the United States.
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Page : 25 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1988
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