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Author:   Vojtech Mastny (National Security Archive, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA) ,  Sven S. Holtsmark (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo, Norway) ,  Andreas Wenger (Centre for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9780415395649

ISBN 10:   041539564
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   14 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. Imagining War in Europe: Soviet Strategic Planning 2. Storming on to Paris: The 1961 ""Buria"" Exercise and the Planned Solution of the Berlin Crisis 3. War Plans under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Czechoslovak Pivot 4. The Warsaw Pact’s Special Target: Planning the Seizure of Denmark 5. The Other Side of Détente: US Quest for Limited Nuclear Options, 1969–1974 6. Silent Allies and Hostile Neutrals: Nonaligned States in the Cold War 7. Andreas Wenger, The Politics of Military Planning: Evolution of NATO’s Strategy 8. Beatrice Heuser, Alliance of Democracies and Nuclear Deterrence 9. Securing Small-State Interests: Norway in NATO 10. How Strong Was the ""Weakest Link""? Danish Security Policy Reconsidered 11. To Defend or Not to Defend: Drawing the Line in the Netherlands 12. Arrogant and Unilateralist: McNamara, Vietnam, and the Defense of Europe"

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Vojtech Mastny directs the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, based at the Center for Security Studies in Zurich and the National Security Archive in Washington. He was NATO's first Manfred Worner Fellow in 1996. He has been professor of history and international relations at Columbia University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as well as professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. His latest book, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years, was the winner of the American Historical Association's 1997 George L. Beer Prize. Sven G. Holtsmark is professor at the Norwegian National Defence Educational Centre/Institute for Defence Studies (NDEC/IDS). He directs the Institute's international programmes, and is currently Head of Studies at the NDEC. His has written on the history of Norwegian and Soviet foreign policy and of Nordic communism, including Soviet-Norwegian relations 1917-1995 (1995) and The diplomacy of the weak: GDR in Norway, 1949-73 (2000). Andreas Wenger is professor of international security policy and director of the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His latest publications include International Relations: From Cold War to the Globalized World (2003) and Living with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons (1997).

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