Opening NATO's door
Subtitle: how the alliance remade itself for a new era
By: Ronald D. Asmus
Contributors: Council on Foreign Relations
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Membership; National security -- Europe; Peaceful change (International relations); Post-communism -- Europe; Intervention (International law); United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Description: "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 policymakers, 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.".

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Includes bibliographical references and index