Abstract
Abstract Nearly a decade after German unification and the demise of the Soviet Union, it has become commonplace to note that NATO has not disappeared as a result of these fundamental changes in the European balance of power, notwithstanding the predictions of neo-realist scholars.1 Less attention has been paid, however, to the failure of neo-realist theory to account for NATO’s cohesion during the cold war despite the rise of German power in the 1950s and 1960s. Alliances have often broken apart because the balance of power within them altered, but this pattern of alignment and realign ment changed after the Second World War. Although the balance of power shifted from core NATO members France and Great Britain to a newer member, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), NATO not only per sisted but its cohesion grew and its mutual defence commitments were strengthened.2
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