Addressing the widely misunderstood issue of who defines defense policy in the North Atlantic Alliance, Jan Willem Honig asks, Is it NATO, the national governments, or the national military? Honig's conclusion--which runs counter to the conventional wisdom that NATO is highly influential--is that the decisive influence in defining defense policy

Are the relationships that the United States forged with North and Central Europe during the Cold War still viable today? As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declines and the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) emerges, can the United States and Europe bridge the transatlantic fissures that opened when

Focusing on the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Alliance and its role in shaping NATO, this book examines the development in Western societies of structures for Allied civil-military relationships and their influence on Western alliance since 1914. As the Military Committee is composed of the chiefs of defense of

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an entangling alliance with ten European nations. Not since 1800, when the United States ended its alliance with France, had the

Filling a surprising gap in existing studies, this book addresses many of the unanswered questions surrounding the role of european integration in shaping national defence policy. The impressive array of contributors consider the pressures on state policy emanating from the process of integration. The book is divided into three distinct