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100	1		_aJohnston, Seth A. _q(Seth Allen), _d1981- _eauthor. _9113755
245	1	0	_aHow NATO adapts : _bstrategy and organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950 / _cSeth A. Johnston.
264		1	_aBaltimore : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2017.
300			_axii, 252 pages.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aJohns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; _v132nd series (2017)
520			_aToday's North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down." These differences are not simply the result of the Cold War's end, 9/11, or recent twenty-first-century developments but represent a more general pattern of adaptability first seen in the incorporation of Germany as a full member of the alliance in the early 1950s. Unlike other enduring post-World War II institutions that continue to reflect the international politics of their founding era, NATO stands out for the boldness and frequency of its transformations over the past seventy years. In this book, the author presents readers with a detailed examination of how NATO adapts. Nearly every aspect of NATO--including its missions, functional scope, size, and membership--is profoundly different than at the organization's founding. Using a theoretical framework of "critical junctures" to explain changes in NATO's organization and strategy throughout its history, Johnston argues that the alliance's own bureaucratic actors played important and often overlooked roles in these adaptations. Touching on renewed confrontation between Russia and the West, which has reignited the debate about NATO's relevance, as well as a quarter century of post-Cold War rapprochement and more than a decade of expeditionary effort in Afghanistan, How NATO Adapts explores how crises from Ukraine to Syria have again made NATO's capacity for adaptation a defining aspect of European and international security.
610	2	0	_aNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization _xHistory. _97309
830		0	_aJohns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; _v132nd series (2017) _9118733
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