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Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order Hardcover – April 15, 2019

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Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era.

In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO.

As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its seventieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs.

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"Sayle, a history professor at the University of Toronto, provides an in-depth analysis.... Through personal papers, cabinet memoranda, and other previously classifed documents retrieved from a dozen archives across North America and Europe, he contextualizes the personal perspectives of the alliance's political, military, and diplomatic leadership. Countering a widely held public perception, Sayle persuasively makes the point that the primary fear among these leaders was not the Red Army crossing Germany's Fulda Gap but rather the "problem of democracy" itself."

― Literary Review of Canada

"Sayle's book is a remarkably well-documented history of the NATO alliance. This is a worthwhile addition to the growing literature on NATO and a foundation for understanding its current challenges and prospects."

― Choice

"Drawing on extensive archival records, Sayle rehearses in detail the founding of NATO and its early operations"

― Foreign Affairs

"Because of its ability to offer a clear, engaging, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking analysis, Enduring Alliance is quite simply the best overview of the alliance's history that scholars, students, and practitioners have now at their disposal. Sayle takes on an ambitious project but delivers a much-needed book that will no doubt become the reference point for any student interested in NATO and transatlantic relations."

― H-Net

"Timothy Sayle's Enduring Alliance is a timely and important book. Sayle successfully proves that most of the challenges that NATO faces today have existed throughout the history of the alliance."

― Real Clear Defense

"Drawing on a dizzying array of published and archival sources, Sayle presents a masterful analysis of what the alliance has been, what bound its members together, and why the alliance has endured for seven decades and is likely to endure for the foreseeable future."

― AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

"This clearly-written and extensively researched book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on NATO. Sayle provides a strong case on why NATO has endured. The book would be appropriate for use in advanced courses in history and international relations where students already have a firm grasp of the Cold War."

― Diplomatic History

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"At a time when the president of the US is questioning the future of NATO, it is essential to understand the alliance's past. Timothy Andrews Sayle's engaging account shows why NATO came into being, how it has endured, and where it may be going. Highly recommended."

-- Mary Sarotte, author of 1989

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press; Illustrated edition (April 15, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501735500
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501735509
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.988 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Thomas Lack

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Chad M

NATO's roles through the decades, and into the future

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2021

NATO's strength and success has long relied on the West's superior technology, energy resources, and human talent. By the 2050s or perhaps the 2090s, though, most oil fields will be severely depleted, forcing the EU, US, and UK to find other ways to run their economies -- and their military forces. Oil will still be necessary but its production may be primarily from coal and the tar sands. NATO's role of protecting the land, ocean, and air space of member nations is the clear and given mission, yet the general public should also recognize American, European, and British territories span the globe, are composed on land in South America, island territories and bases in the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans. Thus China, while on the other side of the world, is contesting sea routes and land territories that are Western. Russia stands in the middle. NATO stands to deter Russian wars in Europe, Russian territorial expansion, and the worst case scenario of a Russian invasion that would reach into central and western Europe.

The dual challenges of oil depletion and extreme climate change will strain NATO. The economies of the West have made virtually no response to these threats, if looked at on a quantitative level (CO2 continues to rise, water resources diminish, populations increase in Third World nations, and clean energy is on track to be 5% or 10% by 2030 and 2040). A warming world, while dangerous to the West, is oddly beneficial to Russia and potentially even to China. The first has land areas which though unproductive now may become vast grasslands. The second has an ocean fleet that will succeed, trade, and harvest resources over the next century whatever predicted outcomes occur for the climate. Yet this period of relative change in fortunes may be short lived. Going out 200 or 300 years with extreme climate change the atmospheric oxygen levels lose a percent or two, which is universally hazardous for humans (and all other mammals). The extreme climate scenarios, runaway greenhouse effect, and ecosystem losses may push the EU and NATO into a revised version of an early role: then, securing seat routes to maintain trade between the US and Europe for energy, food, and manufacturing; and in the future, using military forces to maintain secure areas near nuclear power stations and to protect long-distance power lines. The military not only has the exclusive power to defend nuclear power stations from other military forces, terrorists, or power grid failures, it also has the expertise to handle and transport nuclear materials. A large scale nuclear power initiative with reactors in Hokkaido, Japan, in Sakhalin, Russia, in Alaska, U, and in northern Sweden and Finland would potentially lead to cooperation with Russia and China, which has always been one of NATO's goals, assuming the cooperation is in good faith. A major multi-trillion dollar ten year nuclear energy program can set the groundwork for keeping the US and European economies during the next decades of oil depletion and coal phaseout. Ideally, with record success there will be enough electricity to export to China, Russia, and India. These nations of course will have their own nuclear energy programs. However, the demand for clean energy is so great that virtually all surplus electricity and energy carriers like hydrogen gas will be valuable. Securing resources for member states, and protecting sea lanes, territory, and the people of NATO will mean this military alliance will have new challenges this century -- challenges which are so immense that immediate action and new cooperative treaties are required.

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A readable primer on NATO

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2019

My thanks to the publisher, Cornell University Press, for providing me with a review copy of the eBook via Netgalley. The comments are my own.

This book is a chronological account of the life and times of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since its inception in the late 1940's up to the beginning of the 21st Century. In the author's words, "..it is not a bureaucratic history of NATO organs in Paris or Brussels, nor one meant to hive off the history of NATO from the larger Cold War era." The best explanation for NATO has been attributed to Lord Ismay, NATO's first Secretary-General, who reportedly said that it existed "..to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." Throughout its history, NATO members have needed to deal with crises arising from each of these aspects. It seems that in each decade of its existence there has been an existential event facing the alliance. Of course, over the years the cast of characters has changed; for the U.S. it has gone from General, then President Eisenhower to President Trump. The likes of Charles de Gaulle and the Soviet Union have come and gone. NATO has endured, as the author notes, and he references a 2017 Gallup poll that shows 80% of Americans think that it should be maintained.

The last third of the book consists of acknowledgements, explanatory notes to the numerous footnotes in the text and an index. (It is difficult to refer to the footnotes in the eBook format, without losing your place in the text). There is no bibliography as such, but the author has identified his primary sources that influenced his thinking about NATO's place in international relations. It is a book to study and a casual read of it may provide a reader with only a superficial understanding of the argument that NATO " ..should not be considered only as an international organization but as an instrument of great-power politics..".

In the final analysis, this is a good survey course about NATO and placing it in the larger context of international affairs over the life of NATO.

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Rodolfo

Massively well-documented and engaging reading for any European citizen

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2020

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What hits me the most, besides of course the highly readable and acute narrative of Professor T. A. Sayle, is the actuality of the confrontational great-powers politics on the "old" continent between NATO and a overwhelmingly aggressive and resurgent Russia, which is piloted by the 1980's Soviet (back then) second-line secret services' ideologists-bureaucrats. What goes around comes around on the Russian land, same faces and the same communication strategies in foreign and security policy, only much more digital and 5.0. to be even more deceptive and propagandist. Thank you, Professor Sayle, for your masterful work.

BLANGARI

Straordinario!

Reviewed in Italy on September 17, 2021

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Molto interessante! Scritto molto bene! Lettura super consigliata!

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eric sayle

Excellent read, full provactive ideas, well researched.

Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2019

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The preface of the book gave a clear idea of what the reader was to encounter in the rest of this well researched book.

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