Publisher's Synopsis
This book is an attempt to place current policy issues involving the NATO alliance, and the wider collection of Atlantic area nations, in broad context. There is extensive discussion of the development of Atlantic relationships over time, including evolutionary trends and the major events after the Second World War which led to the formation of NATO. There is also an effort to place military security considerations within a larger framework of economic and political developments. Throughout there is an emphasis on the dynamics of the relationships between Washington and the principal alliance partners of Europe. A basic theme of the work is that the success of the alliance has reflected not so much the solution of problems as the management of differences and self-conscious control of disagreements.
