Nato: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance
by Sten Rynning.
Yale, 345 pp., £20, March, 978 0 300 27011 2
by Sten Rynning.
Yale, 345 pp., £20, March, 978 0 300 27011 2
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of Nato
by Peter Apps.
Wildfire, 624 pp., £25, February, 978 1 0354 0575 6
by Peter Apps.
Wildfire, 624 pp., £25, February, 978 1 0354 0575 6
Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance since the Cold War
edited by Grey Anderson.
Verso, 356 pp., £19.99, July 2023, 978 1 80429 237 2
edited by Grey Anderson.
Verso, 356 pp., £19.99, July 2023, 978 1 80429 237 2
Nato’s cheerleaders like to call it the most successful multinational alliance in history. Part of that is down to its longevity. It turned 75 this year, and has now overtaken the Delian League between Greek city-states, formed in 478 bce, which survived for 74 years. The Egyptian-Hittite ‘eternal treaty’ was in place for longer, though it included just two states, where Nato now has 32 members. But this is also a matter of definition: several Indigenous American confederacies – notably the Haudenosaunee, or Five (later Six) Nations, with some form of central council operating since at least the 16th century – can claim a longer lifespan. The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, signed into existence by 23 states in Rio in 1947, also predates Nato, though it isn’t celebrated in anything like the same way – perhaps because the US has a record of attacking the other signatories. Läs artikel