NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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Now fully revised and updated, this accessible and astute text provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critical developments in U.S.-European relations. The first edition highlighted the dangers that U.S. foreign-policy unilateralism could pose for the relationship, a trend that has only intensified over the past few years. Stanley R. Sloan documents and analyzes the substantial ongoing record of U.S. unilateralism and its consequences as the transatlantic and intra-European debate over Iraq produced deep splits among the allies and seriously eroded European trust in U.S. leadership. Ironically, at the same time, the United States and Europe have made historic choices concerning NATO's future, not only continuing the process of enlarging alliance membership but also expanding the concept of NATO's missions to include peacekeeping and enforcement without geographic limitation. Sloan also enlarges on his ideas for a new Euro-Atlantic pact, a call that has now been echoing in both European and American quarters. Assessing both the good and bad news for the alliance, this book remains a central text for college and university courses on U.S.-European relations and transatlantic security issues and thought-provoking reading for all citizens concerned about future US foreign policy and Europe's role in it.

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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 Rhle, 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 *
Praise for the first edition: An excellent and comprehensive overview of NATO's strategic evolution beginning with its creation in 1949. . . . Essential. * Choice Reviews *
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 reading for students and practitioners alike. -- Michael Rhle, 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 *
Praise for the first edition: 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 *

Author Bio

Stanley R. Sloan is president of VIC-Vermont, a private consulting firm; visiting scholar at Middlebury College; and founding director of the Atlantic Community Initiative. An internationally recognized expert on defense and foreign policy, he has over thirty years of experience as a government foreign and security policy analyst.