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Sergey Radchenko is Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
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.
Introduction - NATO: Past & Present 1. 'Nothing but humiliation for Russia': Moscow and NATO's eastern enlargement, 1993-1995 2. Eastbound and down: The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990-1992 3. The overlooked importance of economics: why the Bush Administration wanted NATO enlargement 4. An uncertain journey to the promised land: The Baltic states' road to NATO membership 5. Debating détente: NATO's Tindemans Initiative, or why the Harmel Report still mattered in the 1980s 6. A nuclear education: the origins of NATO's Nuclear Planning Group 7. The zero option and NATO's dual-track decision: Rethinking the paradox 8. Visions of the next war or reliving the last one? Early alliance views of war with the Soviet Bloc 9. NATO's inherent dilemma: strategic imperatives vs. value foundations