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.

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

Reviews
'In this detailed analysis, a much needed historical perspecitive is provided for contemporary debates with conceptual rigour and precision.' - Professor Stuart Croft, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham 'The expansion of NATO is one of the great issues of contemporary international politics. In this scholarly and well-written study, however, Dr. Smith demonstrates that questions of inclusion, exclusion and identity are not simply issues of the post-1989 world. In a series of case studies from the cold war period, he shows how membership of the Alliance was (and remains) closely related to perceptions of European order. Challenging the conventional wisdom, the interesting and challenging conclusion which emerges from this study is that there is considerable continuity in Alliance politics between the cold war and post-cold war eras.' - Professor John Baylis, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth '...a timely book that provides a convenient framework for understanding the post-war enlargements of NATO.' - James Sperling, International History Review



Book Information
ISBN 9780333918180
Author M. Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 207
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan