Why did NATO expand its membership during the Cold War years, and what was its attraction to new members? This book locates the answers to these questions not solely in the Cold War, but in the historical problems of international order in Europe and the growing idea of the West.

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty in Context The Membership Question and Neo-Enlargement 1948-9 The Accession of Greece and Turkey The Federal Republic and NATO 19 Spain Joins the Alliance 1982-6 Conclusions Bibliography Index

'In this detailed analysis, a much needed historical perspecitive is provided for contemporary debates with conceptual rigour and precision.' - Professor Stuart Croft, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham 'The expansion of NATO is one of the great issues of contemporary international politics. In this scholarly and well-written study, however, Dr. Smith demonstrates that questions of inclusion, exclusion and identity are not simply issues of the post-1989 world. In a series of case studies from the cold war period, he shows how membership of the Alliance was (and remains) closely related to perceptions of European order. Challenging the conventional wisdom, the interesting and challenging conclusion which emerges from this study is that there is considerable continuity in Alliance politics between the cold war and post-cold war eras.' - Professor John Baylis, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth '...a timely book that provides a convenient framework for understanding the post-war enlargements of NATO.' - James Sperling, International History Review