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Opening NATO's Door - How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era (Paperback, New ed)
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Opening NATO's Door - How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era (Paperback, New ed)
Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book
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How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949
to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security
order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from
Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest
expansion of the American commitment to the old continent in
decades? Written by a high-level insider, Opening NATO's Door
provides a definitive account of the ideas, politics, and diplomacy
that went into the historic decision to expand NATO to Central and
Eastern Europe. Drawing on the still-classified archives of the
U.S. Department of State, Ronald D. Asmus recounts how and why
American policy makers, against formidable odds at home and abroad,
expanded NATO as part of a broader strategy to overcome Europe's
Cold War divide and to modernize the Alliance for a new era. Asmus
was one of the earliest advocates and intellectual architects of
NATO enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse
of communism in the early 1990s and subsequently served as a top
aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Deputy Secretary
Strobe Talbott, responsible for European security issues. He was
involved in the key negotiations that led to NATO's decision to
extend invitations to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the
signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and finally, the U.S.
Senate's ratification of enlargement. Asmus documents how the
Clinton Administration sought to develop a rationale for a new NATO
that would bind the U.S. and Europe together as closely in the
post-Cold War era as they had been during the fight against
communism. For the Clinton Administration, NATO enlargement became
the centerpiece of a broader agenda to modernize the U.S.-European
strategic partnership for the future. That strategy reflected an
American commitment to the spread of democracy and Western values,
the importance attached to modernizing Washington's key alliances
for an increasingly globalized world, and the fact that the Clinton
Administration looked to Europe as America's natural partner in
addressing the challenges of the twenty-first century. As the
Alliance weighs its the future following the September 11 terrorist
attacks on the U.S. and prepares for a second round of enlargement,
this book is required reading about the first post-Cold War effort
to modernize NATO for a new era.
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