Stanley R. Sloan

Defense of the West

Transatlantic security from Truman to Trump, Second edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years, examining how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 777g
• ISBN-13: 9781526146229
• ISBN-10: 1526146223
• Artikelnr.: 58590634

Autorenporträt

Stanley R. Sloan is Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College, Vermont and a Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Scowcroft Center at the Atlantic Council of the United States

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Lawrence Freedman Part I: Cold War alliance 1 The transatlantic
bargain and defense of the West 2 Genesis of the bargain 3 The
transatlantic bargain revised 4 The bargain through the Cold War, 1954-1989
5 The United States and Europe at the end of the Cold War: some fundamental
factors Part II: Post-Cold War alliance 6 The 1990s: transitions and
challenges 7 The 2000s: turbulent transatlantic ties 8 The 2010s: new
tasks, new traumas Part III: Defense of the West 9 External threats and
internal challenges 10 Can the West survive? Appendix 1: The North Atlantic
Treaty: Washington D.C. - April 4, 1949 Appendix 2: Active Engagement,
Modern Defence, NATO Strategic Concept, November 20, 2010 Select
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