NATO and the Nuclear Revolution
A Crisis of Credibility 1966-67
This book deals with the crucially important NATO crisis of 1966-67, and the intensive reorientation of NATO strategy following the departure of France from integrated military command. It includes four detailed case studies and draws on previously unavailable documents.
Using French President de Gaulle's March 1966 threat to leave NATO as a starting point, this book tells a three-fold story. First, it gives a penetrating analysis how the North Atlantic Alliance has coped with the nuclear revolution and has overcome the crisis of credibility in European-American relations when the strategy of massive retaliation had lost its usefulness. Second, it reports how the disagreements in NATO were finally resolved and a new strategic concept (MC 14/3) was adopted, agreement on force planning, troop stationing and offset achieved, a formula for nuclear consultation found, and the Harmel Report on the management of East-West detente accepted. Third, it challenges some of the dominant theoretical explanations by structural realists and liberal institutionalists relating to alliance cohesion against the empirical findings of the case studies.
| Autor: | Haftendorn Helga |
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| ISBN: | 9780198280033 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 04.04.1996 |
| Untertitel: | A Crisis of Credibility 1966-67 |
| Schlagworte: | Defence strategy, planning & research Diplomacy General & world history General and world history HISTORY / Military / Strategy HISTORY / World International institutions Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 Military and defence strategy NATO NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 c 1960 to c 1969 c 1960 to c 1970 |
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