Open Door NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security After the Cold War

by Hamilton, Daniel S.; Spohr, Kristina

• ISBN13: 9781733733922
• ISBN10: 1733733922
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-07-30
• Publisher: Foreign Policy Institute

Summary

NATO's decision to open itself to new members and new missions is one of the most contentious and least understood issues of the post-Cold War world.

This book, an unusual and intriguing blend of memoirs and scholarship, takes us back to the decade when those momentous decisions were made. Former senior officials from the United States, Russia, Western and Eastern Europe who were directly involved in the decisions of that time describe their considerations, concerns, and pressures. They are joined by scholars who have been able to draw on newly declassified archival sources to revisit NATO's evolving role in the 1990s.

Author Biography

Daniel S. Hamilton is the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was the Founding Director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and for 15 years he served as Executive Director of the American Consortium on EU Studies.

Dr. Kristina Spohr is a specialist in the International History of Germany since 1945 and interested in the theory and practice of Contemporary History. She is now researching and writing on the global exit from the Cold War 1989-1992 —with the financial support of The Leverhulme Trust.