Overview
- First book to explore the history of NATO in the 1970s and specifically the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society
- Anlayses the impact of emerging international, environmental cooperation on transatlantic relations
- Places environmental and science history in the context of international affairs
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World (SCCCW)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), or the alliance’s environmental programme. This expansion of allied cooperation is an interesting indicator of transatlantic relations during an era of transition and under the impact of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy. The book discusses intra-NATO politics, the projects of the early years and the participation in CCMS projects of non-NATO countries – an unusual feature in the activity of a military alliance. Environmental cooperation in NATO was part of the changes which scientific cooperation was effecting in the international system during the entry into the post-industrial era. The making of the CCMS is the story of a crisis of adjustment to the new era, of hiccups in transatlantic relationships, but ultimately also a story of transatlantic unity. The book will be of much interest to students of NATO, the Cold War, international and environmental history, history of science and international relations.
Reviews
“The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society sheds new light on the anxieties facingthe Western allies. … This overview of the CCMS’s early studies offers a reminder that NATO’s operations have long been far more complex and diverse than the phrase ‘political and military alliance’ suggests.” (Susan Colbourn, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, April 16, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou is Professor of Postwar History at the Department of History of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is the author of Greece and the Cold War: Frontline State, 1952-1967 (2006); NATO and Western Perceptions of the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Analysis and Reporting (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975
Book Subtitle: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment
Authors: Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Series Title: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53847-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53846-4Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85256-0Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53847-1Published: 18 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6807
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Political History, History of Science