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No other region reveals more starkly the fault lines of the Atlantic alliance than its Southern Flank, the subject of Dionysios Chourchoulis richly researched, carefully argued, and meticulously documented study. The book focuses on the front s formative decade, which saw the expansion of NATO s responsibilities from Gibraltar to the Black Sea, and examines the principal crises which buffeted the West during the 1950s. It sheds important light on NATO s internal dynamics, geopolitical fragmentation and intra-bloc rivalries. Chourchoulis assessment of NATO s contributions to political stabilization in the Southern Flank, in contrast to its incoherent military strategy, is perceptive and challenges conventional interpretations. This is a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of the politics of the Atlantic alliance from its infancy to the present.--John O. Iatrides, Southern Connecticut State University

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Dionysios Chourchoulis is instructor of European history at the Hellenic Open University.

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