Why did NATO expand its membership during the Cold War years, and what was its attraction to new members? This book locates the answers to these questions not solely in the Cold War, but in the historical problems of international order in Europe and the growing idea of the West. A wide range of sources is used, and the analysis looks at a process of neo-enlargement during NATO's inception as well as the formal accessions that followed.

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MARK SMITH is Junior Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton.

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Book Title: Nato Enlargement During the Cold War
Book Subtitle: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance
Authors: Mark Smith
Series Title: Cold War History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985359
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-91818-0Published: 19 September 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42354-5Published: 01 January 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98535-9Published: 19 September 2000
Series ISSN: 2946-8329
Series E-ISSN: 2946-8337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Topics: European History, Modern History, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Military and Defence Studies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The North Atlantic Treaty in Context

The Membership Question and Neo-Enlargement, 1948–9

The Accession of Greece and Turkey, 1947–52

The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO, 1949–55

Spain Joins the Alliance, 1982–6

Conclusions

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