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Volume 8, Issue 2.
Summer
The ambiguities and complexities of recent NATO crises have given rise to a nostalgic yearning for a return to the days of unity that seemed to characterize the Alliance in its formative years. In this article, Thomas Schwartz challenges this notion of early solidarity by revealing the divisions and delays that marked NATO's first security crisis ... read more- the 1950 decision to rearm Germany. Making use of recently released governmental sources, personal papers and memoirs, both European and American, the author provides a more complete and well-rounded picture of the crisis. In his account, Mr. Schwartz argues that particular solutions can best be understood by looking at the relative strength of the cross-national bureaucratic coalitions that form around them. Mr. Schwartz concludes that NATO's history reveals a recurrent pattern in the origin, development and resolution of security crises. This pattern of historical resiliency, he suggests, should caution against the tendency to view present discord as a threat to the future viability of the Alliance.
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