NATO and the transatlantic alliance in the 21st century: the twenty-year crisis

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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword Introduction and Prologue: The End of Total War? The Art of Defence Planning The European Defence and Security Debate: The Last Fifty Years The Origins and Development of Atlanticism Neo-Atlanticism: Renewing the Relationship The Decline of the Western European Union NATO's Expansion: The End of the Beginning of Collective Defence? Collective Security or Collective Defence? The Driving Forces and Pre-Determined Elements Post Gaullist Realism and the Reality of Alliance French Defence Firms in Transition Britain's Defence Diversification Dilemma Germany's Unique Conversion Opportunity: Taming a Two-headed Monster The US President and Defence Priorities Leadership and Defence Conversion? Peace Advocates and Trade Unions: Defence Restructuring's Unlikely Alliance Defending Conversion in Congress During the Clinton-Gore Administration The Future of International Terrorism: The Scourge of the twenty-first Century Conclusions: Towards a Multi-polar and Multi-nuclear World Index