The formation of NATO represented a turning point in the history of both the United States and the other Atlantic powers. For the first time in peacetime, America had engaged in a permanent alliance linking it to Western Europe both in a military and in a political sense. NATO: A History tells the complete story of this historic alliance, from its shaky beginnings through its triumphs and failures to its current new grouping of nations.     Peter Duignan's concise yet comprehensive history details    How the founding of NATO had unintended consequences, such as weakening the long "special relationship" between the United States and Britain  The ongoing conflicts between the allies over their respective contributions to the alliance  How NATO successfully deterred the Soviet Union from blackmailing or "Finlandizing" Western European countries  The reorganization of NATO in the 1990s and its cooperative arrangements with former Warsaw Pact members  The continuing contentious debate over enlarging NATO  The critical importance of NATO membership to new members such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic  The development of the new post—cold war European-American relationship  NATO's controversial involvement in Yugoslavia  NATO's clash with Russia over Kosovo  The role of NATO as we enter the twenty-first century    As NATO celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, the world remains a dangerous place. NATO: A History represents a fitting tribute to this historic cooperative alliance of nations and its changing mission as the cold war has ended.

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