Permanent Alliance?

Stanley R. Sloan is the founding Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative, a Visiting Scholar at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, VT, and President of VIC-Vermont, a private consulting firm. Dr. Sloan has lectured widely on US foreign and security policy and Euro-Atlantic security issues in Europe and in the US. He is an internationally recognized expert on defense and foreign policy, with over thirty years of experience as a government foreign and security policy analyst.

• Foreword by the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton; Acknowledgments; NATO and EU Maps; List of Acronyms; Part I Cold War Alliance; Chapter 1 The Bargain as a Framework for Analysis; Chapter 2 Genesis of the Bargain; Chapter 3 The Transatlantic Bargain Revised; Chapter 4 The Bargain through the Cold War, 1954-1989; Chapter 5 The United States and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors; Part II Post Cold War Alliance; Chapter 6 NATO Outreach and Enlargement: The Legacy of Harmel; Chapter 7 NATO and Russia: Partnership or New Cold War?; Chapter 8 NATO's Post-Cold War Military Missions in Theory and Practice; Chapter 9 NATO in Afghanistan; Chapter 10 European Security and Defense Policy and the Transatlantic Bargain; Chapter 11 Implications of the Bush, 9/11 and Iraq Shocks for the Transatlantic Bargain; Part III: Permanent Alliance?; Chapter 12 Is NATO Necessary but Not Sufficient?; Chapter 13 Permanent Alliance?; Appendix: The North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949; Selected Bibliography; About the Author; Index.

"Stanley Sloan, a distinguished NATO analyst, has been thinking, lecturing, and writing about the "transatlantic bargain" for over a generation.  In this, his third book on the subject, he has produced a masterly re-examination of the sixty-year relationship between America and Europe.  Cautiously optimistic about NATO's future, this authoritative study should be welcomed by scholars and policymakers alike.  It will be a valuable text for my NATO history classes." -- Lawrence S. Kaplan, Emeritus Director of the Lyman, L.Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University