This accessible and astute book provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance, which has been at the heart of U.S. and European foreign and security policies since NATO was founded in 1949. Stanley Sloan explores the deep roots of current tensions shaking the alliance as its members face the challenge of adapting to new threats posed by terrorism and proliferating weapons of mass destruction. This comes at a time when the U.S.-European relationship itself is in transition as NATO and the EU are taking in new members and seeking constructive ties to Russia. Meanwhile, the United States is trying to adapt to its role as the world's only global power, sometimes acting too much like the hegemon that it has become. Concluding with a perspective on the future of transatlantic relations, the author argues that a new Atlantic Community Treaty is needed to ensure the future vitality of Euro-Atlantic ties.
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An excellent and comprehensive overview of NATO's strategic evolution beginning with its creation in 1949 up to 2002….Essential. (Choice )
In an elegant and thoughtful style, Stan Sloan skillfully elucidates the origins and evolution over five decades of the critical NATO alliance. (Hamilton, Lee H. )
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. (Kaplan, Lawrence S. )
Sloan succeeds in providing the reader with a rock solid and bang 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 Rühle )
The author has produced an analysis of the transatlantic relationship that captures the essence of the past, revealing many of the factors that will continue to influence the future. I hope that his analysis will become required reading in military schools and training programs across the United States. (General John Shalikashvili )
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 )
Highly readable, well-researched and analytically cogent...an ideal textbook. (The International Spectator )
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 )
Overall, this is a useful book for the generally interested reader and an important source for the more committed student of transatlantic relations. (George G. Georgiadis Journal Of Common Market Studies )
In an elegant and thoughtful style, Stan Sloan skillfully elucidates the origins and evolution over five decades of the critical NATO alliance. (Hamilton, Lee H. )
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. (Kaplan, Lawrence S. )
Sloan succeeds in providing the reader with a rock solid and bang 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 Rühle )
The author has produced an analysis of the transatlantic relationship that captures the essence of the past, revealing many of the factors that will continue to influence the future. I hope that his analysis will become required reading in military schools and training programs across the United States. (General John Shalikashvili )
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 )
Highly readable, well-researched and analytically cogent...an ideal textbook. (The International Spectator )
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 )
Overall, this is a useful book for the generally interested reader and an important source for the more committed student of transatlantic relations. (George G. Georgiadis Journal Of Common Market Studies )
About the Author
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 policy analyst.
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Stanley R. Sloan is the founding Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative, Visiting Scholar at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, and President of VIC-Vermont, a private consulting firm. He is the author of Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama, forthcoming from Continuum Books in July 2010.
Mr. Sloan is available for interviews and presentations in the United States, Canada and abroad. He can be contacted at srs2@wcvt.com.
During the Middlebury College Winter Terms from 2005-2007, and in January 2009, he taught courses on transatlantic relations, and, in January 2008 and 2010, presented a course on "American Power: Use and Abuse."
Stan was educated at the University of Maine (BA), Columbia University's School of International Affairs (MIA), and American University's School of International Service (abd PhD). He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Officers' Training School and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. Stan began his more than three decades of public service at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1967, serving as NATO and European Community desk officer, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, and as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe.
Mr. Sloan is available for presentations and interviews in the United States and abroad. He can be reached at srs2@wcvt.com.
He was employed by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress in a variety of analytical and research management positions from 1975-1999, including head of the Office of Senior Specialists. In April 1999, he retired from his position as the Senior Specialist in International Security Policy. During 1997-98, Stan was the rapporteur for the North Atlantic Assembly special presidential report on "NATO in the 21st Century."
Mr. Sloan's books and monographs in addition to the forthcoming Permanent Alliance? include: NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged (Rowman and Littlefield, August 2005); The Use of U.S. Power: Implications for U.S. Interests [with Robert Sutter and Casimir Yost] (Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, June 2004); NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Crisis, Continuity or Change? (Foreign Policy Association, October 2002); The United States and European Defence (Chaillot Paper, Western European Union Institute, April 2000).
Stan has lectured widely on US foreign and security policy and Euro-Atlantic security issues in the United States and abroad. He presents frequently at the NATO College in Rome, where, in September 2005, he was named an "Honorary Ancien" of the College to acknowledge his contributions to the College and the NATO alliance, and has lectured extensively for the U.S. public diplomacy program in many countries, most recently China, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Germany, Russia and Estonia (as a Fulbright Senior Fellow). In May 2009 he served as moderator and rapporteur for an international conference in The Hague on NATO's new strategic concept. In 2002, Stan was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow and most recently in that capacity lectured at Hampden-Sydney College in February 2007.
Mr. Sloan is available for interviews and presentations in the United States, Canada and abroad. He can be contacted at srs2@wcvt.com.
During the Middlebury College Winter Terms from 2005-2007, and in January 2009, he taught courses on transatlantic relations, and, in January 2008 and 2010, presented a course on "American Power: Use and Abuse."
Stan was educated at the University of Maine (BA), Columbia University's School of International Affairs (MIA), and American University's School of International Service (abd PhD). He is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force Officers' Training School and served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. Stan began his more than three decades of public service at the Central Intelligence Agency in 1967, serving as NATO and European Community desk officer, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, and as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe.
Mr. Sloan is available for presentations and interviews in the United States and abroad. He can be reached at srs2@wcvt.com.
He was employed by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress in a variety of analytical and research management positions from 1975-1999, including head of the Office of Senior Specialists. In April 1999, he retired from his position as the Senior Specialist in International Security Policy. During 1997-98, Stan was the rapporteur for the North Atlantic Assembly special presidential report on "NATO in the 21st Century."
Mr. Sloan's books and monographs in addition to the forthcoming Permanent Alliance? include: NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged (Rowman and Littlefield, August 2005); The Use of U.S. Power: Implications for U.S. Interests [with Robert Sutter and Casimir Yost] (Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, June 2004); NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); NATO and Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Crisis, Continuity or Change? (Foreign Policy Association, October 2002); The United States and European Defence (Chaillot Paper, Western European Union Institute, April 2000).
Stan has lectured widely on US foreign and security policy and Euro-Atlantic security issues in the United States and abroad. He presents frequently at the NATO College in Rome, where, in September 2005, he was named an "Honorary Ancien" of the College to acknowledge his contributions to the College and the NATO alliance, and has lectured extensively for the U.S. public diplomacy program in many countries, most recently China, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Germany, Russia and Estonia (as a Fulbright Senior Fellow). In May 2009 he served as moderator and rapporteur for an international conference in The Hague on NATO's new strategic concept. In 2002, Stan was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow and most recently in that capacity lectured at Hampden-Sydney College in February 2007.
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This review is from: NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered (Paperback)
Stanley Sloan pairs an easy-reading writing style with a well-documented text to produce an outstanding work for both novice and scholar. His book focuses on the issues surrounding the formation of NATO, the historical events that shaped the alliance, and its relevance in today's political environment. The majority of the book is dedicated to examining the historical events surrounding the formation of NATO and the European Union. He begins with NATO's genesis out of World War II by discussing the need for a collective defense system, the struggles to gain organizational consensus and early challenges faced by NATO. At center stage of the conflict is the European distrust of US intentions and the US's desire for greater European financial/military support for European issues. He moves to the Cold War period, examining the impacts of nuclear weapons policy on NATO and he looks at lessons from the Cold War. This book provides a great deal of insight on US Nuclear Policy development as we confronted both a Soviet threat and European political challenges. The post-Cold War portion of the book provides an exceptional look at the wartime missions faced in the Balkans, the issue of NATO expansion, and the impacts of 9/11. The final three chapters examine NATO's relevance in today's environment and potential organizational changes for the 21st Century. He finishes with his draft of a "contemporary" North Atlantic Treaty and his rationale for why changes need to be made to the 1949 original. Sloan includes two appendicles which compliment this book. The first is the 1949 Articles of the North Atlantic Treaty and the second is a chronological history of NATO from 1941-2001. Both are outstanding references. He also includes a bibliography as well as web links for updated information. All are great additions. I recommend this book.
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