Praise for the first edition: Sloan succeeds in providing the reader with a rock solid and up-to-date NATO history. Its accessible style and its comprehensive coverage make it both a primer and a book for the specialist reader.... Required readingfor students and practitioners alike....
- Michael Rühle, head, Energy Security Section, NATO, Nato Review
Praise for the first edition: Stanley Sloan's well-written account is a welcome corrective to the gap in NATO historiography. His book deserves a wide readership from the general public as well as NATO scholars.....
- Lawrence S. Kaplan, emeritus director, Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies,
Praise for the first edition: A concise and insightful account of NATO from the very beginning to the end of the Cold War and beyond . . . and a clear stand on the debate over NATO's future.....
International Affairs
Praise for the first edition: In an elegant and thoughtful style, Stan Sloan skillfully elucidates the origins and evolution over five decades of the critical NATO alliance.....
- Lee H. Hamilton, former U.S. Representative,
Praise for the first edition: Highly readable, well-researched and analytically cogent. . .An ideal textbook.....
The International Spectator
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> An excellent and comprehensive overview of NATO's strategic evolution beginning with its creation in 1949. . . . Essential.
Choice Reviews
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> Sloan succeeds in providing the reader with a rock solid and up-to-date NATO history. Its accessible style and its comprehensive coverage make it both a primer and a book for the specialist reader.... Required reading for students and practitioners alike.
- Michael Rühle, head, Energy Security Section, NATO, Nato Review
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> Stanley Sloan's well-written account is a welcome corrective to the gap in NATO historiography. His book deserves a wide readership from the general public as well as NATO scholars.
- Lawrence S. Kaplan, emeritus director, Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies,
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> A concise and insightful account of NATO from the very beginning to the end of the Cold War and beyond . . . and a clear stand on the debate over NATO's future.
International Affairs
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> In an elegant and thoughtful style, Stan Sloan skillfully elucidates the origins and evolution over five decades of the critical NATO alliance.
- Lee H. Hamilton, former U.S. Representative,
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> Highly readable, well-researched and analytically cogent. . .An ideal textbook.
The International Spectator
<i>Praise for the first edition:</i> Stanley Sloan's book offers a practitioner's well-documented account of the antagonisms within the transatlantic alliance during the cold war and post-cold war periods…. this is a useful book for the generally interested reader and an important source for the more committed student of transatlantic relations.
Journal of Common Market Studies
Chapter 1 The Bargain as a Framework for Analysis
Chapter 2 Genesis of the Bargain
Chapter 3 The Transatlantic Bargain Revised
Chapter 4 The Bargain through the Cold War, 1954-1989
Chapter 5 The United States and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors
Chapter 6 NATO's Post-Cold War Military Missions in Theory and Practice
Chapter 7 NATO Nuclear Strategy and Missile Defense
Chapter 8 NATO Outreach and Enlargement: The Legacy of Harmel
Chapter 9 A New Transatlantic Bargain Taking Shape: From ESDI to ESDP
Chapter 10 The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged: September 11 and Iraq
Chapter 11 Meeting the Challenge
Chapter 12 Toward a New Atlantic Community