Selective Bibliography on the Cold War Alliances

as of November 2001

 

General Military

Binder, Rainer. Die Machtblöcke WAPA und NATO: Entstehung - Bedrohung - Stärke. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1984.
Epley, William W. (ed.). International Cold War Military Records and History. Washington, DC: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1996.
Faringon, Hugh. Strategic Geography: NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Superpowers. London: Routledge, 21989.
Gates, William R. and Katsuaki L. Terasawa. "Commitment, Threat Perception, and Expenditures in a Defense Alliance." International Studies Quarterly 36 (1992): 101-118.
Heuser, Beatrice. "Victory in a Nuclear War? A Comparison of NATO and WTO War Aims and Strategies." Contemporary European History 7, No. 3 (1998): 311-328.
Köpfer, Josef et al. Nordatlantikpakt - Warschauerpakt: Ein Vergleich zweier Bündnisse. München: Bayerische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit, 1980.
Mastny, Vojtech. "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall." Foreign Affairs 78, no. 3 (May/June 1999): 176-189.
Miller, David. The Cold War: A Military History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Riste Olav and Jenssen, Lars Chr. (eds.), Intelligence in the cold war: organisation, role, international cooperation. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 2001.
Sloan, Stanley R. Some Perspectives on the NATO-Warsaw Pact Balance. Washington: CRS, Congressional Research Service, 1976.

NATO

General
Buteaux, Paul. The Politics of Nuclear Consultation in NATO, 1965-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Calleo, David P. The Atlantic Fantasy: The U.S., NATO, and Europe. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1970.
Cromwell, William C. The United States and the European Pillar: The Strained Alliance. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Dahinden, Martin und Andreas Wenger. "Die Nato 50 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung: Eine Allianz im Wandel." In Bulletin 1999 zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik, ed. by Kurt R. Spillmann und Andreas Wenger. Zürich: Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktanalyse, 1999: 35-58.
Di Nolfo, Ennio (ed.). The Atlantic Pact Forty Years Later: A Historical Reappraisal. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1991.
Drew, Nelson S. NATO From Berlin to Bosnia: Trans-Atlantic Security in Transition. Washington, D.C.: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 1995.
Duffield, John S. "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Alliance Theory." In Explaining International Relations Since 1945, ed. by Ngaire Woods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Duffield, John S. Power Rules: The Evolution of NATO's Conventional Force Posture. Stanford, CA: Stanford California Press, 1995.
Gordon, Colin. The Atlantic Alliance: A Bibliography. London: F. Pinter, 1978.
Haftendorn, Helga. European Security Cooperation and the Atlantic Alliance. San Domenico, 1991.
Heuser, Beatrice and Robert O'Neill (eds.). Securing Peace in Europe, 1945-62: Thoughts for the Post-cold War Era. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.
Heuser, Beatrice. "NATO-Kernwaffenstrategie im Kalten Krieg: Eine kleine rückblickende Übersicht." Österreichische Militärzeitschrift 2 & 3 (1995): 145-156 & 265-274.
Heuser, Beatrice. NATO, Britain, France, and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Heuser, Beatrice. Transatlantic Relations: Sharing Ideals and Costs. London: Chatham House Papers, 1996.
Jordan, Robert S. (ed.). Generals in International Politics: NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Jordan, Robert S. and Michael W. Bloome. Political Leadership in NATO: A Study in Multilateral Diplomacy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years. New York: Praeger, 1999.
Karber, Phillip A. and Jerald A. Combs. "The United States, NATO, and the Soviet Threat to Western Europe: Military Estimates and Policy Options, 1945-1963." Diplomatic History 22, No. 3 (Summer 1998): 399-429.
Kugler, Richard L. Commitment to Purpose: How Alliance Partnership Won the Cold War. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1993.
Laugen, Torunn. "Stumbling into a new role. Nato's out-of-area policy after the Cold War". Defence Studies 5/1999. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 1999.
Liland, Frode. "Keeping Nato out of trouble. Nato's non-policy on out-of-area issues during the Cold War". Defence Studies 4/1999. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 1999.
Lundestad, Geir (ed.). No End to Alliance: The United States and Western Europe: Past, Present, and Future. (Nobel Symposium 105). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998.
Mantovani, Mauro. "Die Schweiz und die NATO." Paper delivered at Conference 'Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration' (41. Internationale Tagung für Militärgeschichte des MGFA). Potsdam, 22-25 March 1999.
Mastny, Vojtech. "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall." Foreign Affairs 78, no. 3 (May/June 1999): 176-189.
Mastny, Vojtech. "Reassuring NATO: Eastern Europe, Russia, and the Western Alliance". Defence Studies 5/1997. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 1997.
Melandri, Pierre. L'Alliance atlantique. Paris: Gallimard, 1979.
Örvik, Nils, and Niels J. Haagerup. The Scandinavian Members of Nato. London: IISS, 1965.
Park, William. Defending the West: A History of NATO. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1986.
Pedlow, Gregory W. (ed.). NATO Strategy Documents, 1949-1969. Brussels: NATO, 1997.
Powaski, Ronald E. The Entangling Alliance: The United States and European Security, 1950-1993. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
Risse-Kappen, Thomas. "Collective Identity in a Democratic Community: The Case of NATO". In The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics, ed. by Peter J. Katzenstein. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996: 357-399.
Riste, Olav (ed.). Western Security: The Formative Years. European and Atlantic Defence 1947-1953. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1985.
Riste Olav and Jenssen, Lars Chr. (eds.), Intelligence in the cold war: organisation, role, international cooperation. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, 2001.
Sandler, Todd and Keith Hartey. The Political Economy of NATO: Past, Present, and Into the 21th Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Schwartz, David N. NATO's Nuclear Dilemmas. Washington: Brookings, 1983.
Schweizer, Carl-Christoph. The Changing Western Analysis of the Soviet Threat. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Smith, Mark. NATO Enlargement during the Cold War: Strategy and System in the Western Alliance. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.
Spencer, Robert. "Alliance Perceptions of the Soviet Threat, 1950-1988." In The Changing Western Analysis of the Soviet Threat, ed. by Carl-Christoph Schweitzer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990: 9-48.
Stuart, Douglas and William Tow. The Limits of Alliance: NATO Out-of-Area Problems since 1949. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Thoss, Bruno. "Kollektive Verteidigung und ökonomische Sicherheit: Die Verteidigungsplanung der NATO zwischen militärischen Erfordernissen und finanziellen Begrenzungen 1949-1967." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 19-38.
Williams, Phil (comp.). The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. New Brunswick, NJ: Transactions Publications, 1994.
Zeeman, Bert. "The Origins of NATO: An International Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 47, No. 4 (December 1990).

Periods

Origins
Baylis, John. The Diplomacy of Pragmatism: Britain and the Formation of NATO, 1942-1949. (American Diplomacy History). Houndmills, UK: Macmillan, 1993.
Cook, Don. Forging the Alliance: NATO, 1945-1950. New York: Arbor House, 1989.
Ehlert, Hans et al. (eds.). Die NATO-Option. (Anfänge westdeutscher Sicherheitspolitik 1945-1956; 3). München: Oldenbourg, 1993.
Ferell, Robert H. "The Formation of the Alliance, 1948-1949." In American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, ed. by Lawrence S. Kaplan. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991: 11-32.
Hampton, Mary N. "NATO at the Creation: U.S. Foreign Policy, West Germany and the Wilsonian Impulse." Security Studies 4, No. 3 (Spring 1995): 610-656.
Heller, Francis H. and John R. Gillingham (eds.). NATO: The Founding of the Atlantic Alliance and the Integration of Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.
Henrikson, Alan K. "The Creation of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1948-1952." Naval War College Review 32 (May-June 1980): 4-39.
Ireland, Timothy P. Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. A Community of Interests: NATO and the Military Assistance Program: 1948-1951. Washington: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1980.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. The United States and NATO: The Formative Years. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
Leonardis, Massimo de. History of the Origins and the First Developments of NATO (1947-1957). Milano: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 1994.
Maier, Klaus A. und Norbert Wiggershaus (eds.). Das Nordatlantische Bündnis, 1949-1956. (Beiträge zur Militärgeschichte; 37). München: Oldenbourg, 1993.
Mastny, Vojtech. "NATO from the Soviet and East European Perspectives 1949-1968." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 55-74.
Osgood, Robert E. NATO: The Entangling Alliance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Pedlow, Gregory. "Putting the 'O' in NATO: The Organizational Development of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1949-1956." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 153-170.
Reid, Escott. Time of Fear and Hope: The Making of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949. Toronto: McLelland and Stewart, 1977.
Riste, Olav (ed.). Western Security: The Formative Years: European and Atlantic Defence 1947-1953. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1985.
Smith, E. Timothy. The United States, Italy and NATO, 1947-1952. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Smith, Joseph (ed.). The Origins of NATO. (Exeter Studies in History; 28). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1990.
Weber, Kathrin. "Italiens Weg in die NATO 1947-1949." Viertelsjahrhefte für Zeitgeschichte 41, No. 2 (1993): 197-221.
Weber, Steve. Multilateralism in NATO: Shaping the Postwar Balance of Power, 1945-1961. (Research Series; 79). Berkeley: International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1991.
Wiebes, Cees and Bert Zeeman. "The Pentagon Negotiations March 1948: The Launching of the North Atlantic Treaty." International Affairs 59 (1982-83): 351-363.
Wiggershaus, Norbert and Roland G. Foerster (eds.). Die westliche Sicherheitsgemeinschaft, 1948-1950: Gemeinsame Probleme und gegensätzliche Nationalinteressen in der Gründungsphase der Nordatlantischen Allianz. (Militärgeschichte seit 1945; 8). Boppard am Rhein: Boldt, 1988.
Wiggershaus, Norbert und Winfried Heinemann (eds.). Nationale Aussen- und Bündnispolitik der NATO-Mitgliedsstaaten. München: Oldenbourg, 2000.

Wiggershaus, Norbert. "Nordatlantische Bedrohungsperzeptionen im 'Kalten Krieg' 1948-1956." In Das Nordatlantische Bündnis, eds. by Klaus A. Maier and Norbert Wiggershaus. München: Oldenbourg, 1993: 17-54.

Yegorova, Natalia I. "Soviet Perceptions of the Formation of NATO, 1948-1953." Paper presented at the Nobel Institute Research Seminar 1998 in Oslo [http://www.history.machaon.ru/number_02/analiti4/2/index.html].

1950s
Dockrill, Saki. "No Troops, Please. We Are American: The Diplomacy of Burden-Sharing in the Case of the Radford Plan, 1956". In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 121-136.
Dockrill, Saki. Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament, 1950-1955. (Cambridge Studies in International Relations; 13). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Dockrill, Saki. Eisenhower's New-Look National Security Policy, 1953-6. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Ehlert, Hans et al. (eds.). Die NATO-Option. (Anfänge westdeutscher Sicherheitspolitik 1945-1956; 3). München: Oldenbourg, 1993.
Hammerich, H. "'Operation Wise Men': Das Temporary Council Committee und die Geburt der NATO im Jahre 1952." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 137-152.
Heinemann, Winfried. Vom Zusammenwachsen des Bündnisses: Die Funktionsweise der NATO in ausgewählten Krisenfällen 1951-1956. München: Oldenbourg, 1998.
Heller, Francis H. and John R. Gillingham (eds.). NATO: The Founding of the Atlantic Alliance and the Integration of Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.
Ireland, Timothy P. "Building NATO's Nuclear Posture, 1950-65." In The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe, ed. by Jeffrey D. Boutwell, Paul Doty, and Gregory F. Treverton. London: Auburn House Pub. Co, 1985: 5-43.
Ismay, Hastings Lionel. NATO: The First Five Years: 1949-1954. [Paris, 1954].
Jordan, Robert S. The NATO International Staff / Secretariat, 1952-1957: A Study in International Administration. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
LaFeber, Walter. "NATO and the Korean War: A Context." Diplomatic History 13, No. 4 (1989): 462-477.
Leonardis, Massimo de. History of the Origins and the First Developments of NATO (1947-1957). Milano: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 1994.
Maier, Klaus A. und Norbert Wiggershaus (eds.). Das Nordatlantische Bündnis, 1949-1956. (Beiträge zur Militärgeschichte; 37). München: Oldenbourg, 1993.
Maier, Klaus. "Die politische Kontrolle über die amerikanischen Atomwaffen als Bündnisproblem der NATO unter der Doktrin der massiven Vergeltung." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 39-54.
Mastny, Vojtech. "NATO from the Soviet and East European Perspectives 1949-1968." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 55-74.
Nash, Philip. "Jumping Jupiters: The U.S. Search for IRBM Host Countries in NATO, 1957-59." Diplomacy and Statecraft 6, No. 31 (1995): 753-786.
Osgood, Robert E. NATO: The Entangling Alliance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Pedlow, Gregory, W. "Flexible Response before MC14/3: General Lauris Norstad and the Second Berlin Crisis 1958-1962." Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali [Italy] 13, no. 1 (1998): 235-268.
Pedlow, Gregory. "Putting the 'O' in NATO: The Organizational Development of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1949-1956." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 153-170.
Riste, Olav (ed.). Western Security: The Formative Years: European and Atlantic Defence 1947-1953. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1985.
Roman, Peter J. "Curtis LeMay and the Origins of NATO Atomic Targeting." Journal of Strategic Studies 16, No. 1 (1993): 46-74.
Schmitt, Burkard. Frankreich und die Nukleardebatte der Atlantischen Allianz 1956-66. München: Oldenbourg, 1998.
Twigge, Stephen et al. "Britain, the United States, and the Development of NATO Strategy, 1950-1964." Journal of Strategic Studies 19, No. 2 (1996): 260-282.
Wampler, Robert A. "NATO Strategic Planning and Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1957." Nuclear History Program Occasional Paper 6. Baltimore: Center for International Studies, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, 1990.
Wampler, Robert A. "Eisenhower, NATO, and Nuclear Weapons: The Strategy and Political Economy of Alliance Security." In Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment, ed. by Günter Bischof / Stephen E. Ambrose. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1995: 162-190.
Wampler, Robert. "Die USA, Adenauer und die atomare Strategie der NATO." In Die doppelte Eindämmung: Europäische Sicherheit und deutsche Frage in den Fünzigern, ed. by Rolf Steiniger et al. (eds.). München: v.Hase&Koehler, 1993.
Weber, Steve. Multilateralism in NATO: Shaping the Postwar Balance of Power, 1945-1961. (Research Series; 79). Berkeley: International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1991.
Wiggershaus, Norbert und Winfried Heinemann (eds.). Nationale Aussen- und Bündnispolitik der NATO-Mitgliedsstaaten. München: Oldenbourg, 2000.
Wiggershaus, Norbert. "Nordatlantische Bedrohungsperzeptionen im 'Kalten Krieg' 1948-1956." In Das Nordatlantische Bündnis, eds. by Klaus A. Maier and Norbert Wiggershaus. München: Oldenbourg, 1993: 17-54.
Wyn Rees, G. Anglo-American Approaches to Alliance Security, 1950-60. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.

1960s
Bozo, Frédéric. "Détente vs. Alliance: France, the United States and the Politics of the Harmel Report, 1964-1968." Contemporary European History 7, No. 3 (November 1998): 343-360.
Bozo, Frédéric. "De Gaulle, l'Amérique et l'alliance atlantique: Une relecture de la crise de 1966." In Vingtième siècle 43 (1994): 55-68.
Brockpahler, Joachim. "The Harmel Philosophy: NATO's Creative Strategy for Peace." NATO Review 38, No. 6 (December 1990): 17-21.
Buchan, Alastair. NATO in the 1960's: The Implications of Interdependence. Ref. ed. London: Chatto&Windus, 1963.
Buchan, Alastair. The MLF: A Historical Perspective. London: IISS, 1964.
Charles, J. Robert. "The Future Tasks of the Alliance': NATO's 1967 Harmel Exercise and Report." MA Thesis. Medford, MA: Tufts University (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), 1993.
Costigliola, Frank. "Kennedy, the European Allies and the Failure to Consult." Political Science Quarterly 110, no. 1 (1995): 105-123.
Costigliola, Frank. "Lyndon B. Johnson, Germany, and 'the End of the Cold War'." In Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World, ed. by Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994: 173-210.
Donaghy, Greg. "Domesticating NATO: Canada and the North Atlantic Alliance, 1963-68." International Journal 52, No. 3 (1997): 445-464.
Duffield, John S. "The Evolution of NATO's Strategy of Flexible Response." Security Studies 1 (1991): 132-156.
Haftendorn, Helga. "Das Projekt einer multilateralen NATO-Atomstreitkraft (MLF): Vademecum für die Glaubwürdigkeit der nuklearen Strategie? Das 'Nukleare Patt' und die Zweifel an der Glaubwürdigkeit der nuklearen Abschreckung." Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 54, No. 2 (1995): 417-451.
Haftendorn, Helga. "Entstehung und Bedeutung des Harmel-Berichtes der NATO von 1967." Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 40, no. 2 (April 1992): 169-221.
Haftendorn, Helga. NATO and the Nuclear Revolution: A Crisis of Credibility, 1966-1967. (Nuclear History Program; 5). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Harrison, Michael M. and Mark G. McDonough. Negotiations on the French Withdrawal from NATO. Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
Holderegger, Thomas and Reto Wollenmann. Flexible Response - Die Rolle der Trilateral Negotiations 1966/67 im Strategiefindungsprozess innerhalb der NATO. Universität Zürich, 1999. mimeo.
Hoppe, Christoph. Zwischen Teilhabe und Mitsprache: Die Nuklearfrage in der Allianzpolitik Deutschlands, 1959-1966. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1993.
Howard, Michael. "An Unhappy Successful Marriage: Security Means Knowing What to Expect." Foreign Affairs 78, no. 3 (May/June 1999): 164-175.
Huston, James Alvin. One for All: NATO Strategy and Logistics through the Formative Period, 1949-1969. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984.
Ireland, Timothy P. "Building NATO's Nuclear Posture, 1950-65." In The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe, ed. by Jeffrey D. Boutwell, Paul Doty, and Gregory F. Treverton. London: Auburn House Pub. Co, 1985: 5-43.
Joffe, Josef. "Germany and the Atlantic Alliance: The Politics of Dependence, 1961-1968." In Political Problems of Atlantic Partnership, ed. by William C. Cromwell. Bruge: Council of Europe, 1969: 321-454.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. and Katherine A. Kellner. "Lemnitzer: Surviving the French Military Withdrawal." In Generals in International Politics: NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, ed. by Robert S. Jordan. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Kissinger, Henry A. The Troubled Partnership: A Re-Appraisal of the Atlantic Alliance. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1966.
Kugler, Richard L. The Great Strategy Debate: NATO's Evolution in the 1960's. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1991.
Mastny, Vojtech. "NATO from the Soviet and East European Perspectives 1949-1968." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 55-74.
McGinn, John. "The Politics of Collective Inaction: NATO´s Response to the Prague Spring." Journal of Cold War Studies 1, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 111-138.
Pedlow, Gregory, W. "Flexible Response before MC14/3: General Lauris Norstad and the Second Berlin Crisis 1958-1962." Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali [Italy] 13, no. 1 (1998): 235-268.
Schmitt, Burkard. Frankreich und die Nukleardebatte der Atlantischen Allianz 1956-66. München: Oldenbourg, 1998.
Schwartz, Thomas A. "Lyndon Johnson and Europe: Alliance Politics, Political Economy, and 'Growing out of the Cold War." In The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam, ed. by H.W. Brands. College Station: Texas University Press, 1999.
Soutou, Georges-Henri. "La décision française de quitter le commandement intègre de l'OTAN." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 185-208.
Stromseth, Jane E. The Origins of Flexible Response: NATO's Debate Over Strategy in the 1960's. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.
Twigge, Stephen et al. "Britain, the United States, and the Development of NATO Strategy, 1950-1964." Journal of Strategic Studies 19, No. 2 (1996): 260-282.
Wells, Samuel F. Jr. "Charles de Gaulle and the French Withdrawal from NATO's Integrated Command." In American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, ed. by Lawrence S. Kaplan. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991: 81-94.

1970s
Daalder, Ivo H. The Nature and Practice of Flexible Response: NATO Strategy and Theater Nuclear Forces Since 1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Haftendorn, Helga. "Das doppelte Missverständnis: Zur Vorgeschichte des NATO-Doppelbeschlusses von 1979." Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 12 (1985): 244-287.
Hahn, Walter F. and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff (eds.). Atlantic Community in Crisis: A Redefinition of the Transatlantic Relationship. New York: Pergamon Press, 1979.

1980s
Daalder, Ivo H. The Nature and Practice of Flexible Response: NATO Strategy and Theater Nuclear Forces Since 1967. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Countries

Canada
Donaghy, Greg. "Domesticating NATO: Canada and the North Atlantic Alliance, 1963-68." International Journal 52, No. 3 (1997): 445-464.
Haglund, David G. "The NATO of its Dreams: Canada and the North Atlantic Alliance." International Journal 52, No. 3 (1997): 464-483.
Létourneau, Paul (ed.). Le Canada et l'OTAN après 40 ans, 1949-1989. Québec: Centre Québécois de Relations Internationales / Université Laval, 1992.
Maloney, Sean. Securing Command of the Sea: NATO Naval Planning 1948-1954. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Maloney, Sean. War Without Battles: Canada's NATO Brigade in Germany 1951-1993. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1997.
McDougall, Barbara. Canada and the NATO: The Forgotten Ally? Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1992.

France
Bozo, Frédéric. "De Gaulle, l'Amérique et l'alliance atlantique: Une relecture de la crise de 1966." In Vingtième siècle 43 (1994): 55-68.
Chavillon, Frederic. "France and NATO: Atlanticism as the Pursuit of Europe by Other Means?" RUSI Journal: The Journal of Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies 141, No. 6 (1996): 33-39.
Cogan, Charles G. Forced to Choose: France, the Atlantic Alliance and NATO - Then and Now. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.
Harrison, Michael M. and Mark G. McDonough. Negotiations on the French Withdrawal from NATO. Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
Heuser, Beatrice. NATO, Britain, France, and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Schmitt, Burkard. Frankreich und die Nukleardebatte der Atlantischen Allianz 1956-66. München: Oldenbourg, 1998.
Soutou, Georges-Henri. "La décision française de quitter le commandement intègre de l'OTAN." In Von Truman bis Harmel: Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration, ed. by Hans-Joachim Harder. München: Oldenbourg, 2000: 185-208.
Vaïsse, Maurice et al. (eds.). La France et l'Otan, 1949-1996. Paris: Editions Complexe, 1996.
Wells, Samuel F. Jr. "Charles de Gaulle and the French Withdrawal from NATO's Integrated Command." In American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, ed. by Lawrence S. Kaplan. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991: 81-94.

Germany
Ehlert, Hans et al. (eds.). Die NATO-Option. (Anfänge westdeutscher Sicherheitspolitik 1945-1956; 3). München: Oldenbourg, 1993.
Hampton, Mary N. The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Hanrieder, Wolfram F. "The FRG and NATO: Between Security Dependence and Security Partnership." In The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO: 40 Years After, ed. by Emil J. Kirchner and James Sperlin. Bassingstoke: MacMillan, 1992: 194-220.
Harder, Hans-Joachim (ed.). Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Spannungsfeld von NATO und europäischer Integration. München: Oldenbourg, 2000.
Heuser, Beatrice. NATO, Britain, France, and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Hoppe, Christoph. Zwischen Teilhabe und Mitsprache: Die Nuklearfrage in der Allianzpolitik Deutschlands, 1959-1966. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1993.
Joffe, Josef. "Germany and the Atlantic Alliance: The Politics of Dependence, 1961-1968." In Political Problems of Atlantic Partnership, ed. by William C. Cromwell. Bruge: Council of Europe, 1969: 321-454.
Wampler, Robert. "Die USA, Adenauer und die atomare Strategie der NATO." In Die doppelte Eindämmung: Europäische Sicherheit und deutsche Frage in den Fünzigern, ed. by Rolf Steiniger et al. (eds.). München: v.Hase&Koehler, 1993.

Iceland
Ingimundarson, Valur. The Struggle for Western Integration: Iceland, the United States, and NATO during the First Cold War. Oslo: Institut for Forsvarsstudier, 1999.

Italy
Smith, E. Timothy. The United States, Italy and NATO, 1947-1952. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Weber, Kathrin. "Italiens Weg in die NATO 1947-1949." Viertelsjahrhefte für Zeitgeschichte 41, No. 2 (1993): 197-221.

Netherlands
Wiebes, Cees and Bert Zeeman. "'I don't need your handkerchiefs': Holland's experience of crisis consultation in NATO." International Affairs 66 (1990): 91-113.

Norway
Holtsmark, Sven G. Avmaktens diplomati. DDR i Norge, 1949-1973 [The Diplomacy of Impotence. The GDR in Norway 1949-1973]. Oslo: HIFO, 1999.
Holtsmark Sven G. (ed.). Norge og Sovjetunionen 1917-1955. En utenrikspolitisk dokumentasjon [Norway and the Soviet Union 1917-1955. A Foreign Policy Documentation]. Oslo: Cappelen Forlag, 1995; Moscow: Elia-Art-O, 1997 [Russian edition]).
Njølstad, Olav. Strålende forskning. Institutt for energiteknikk 1948-1998 [Institute for Energy Technology 1948-1998]. Oslo: Tano Aschehoug, 1999.
Njølstad Olav and Wicken, Olav. Kunnskap som våpen. Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt 1946-1976 [Norwegian Defence Research Establishment 1946-1976]. Oslo: Tano Aschehoug, 1997.
Norsk utenrikspolitikks historie [History of Norwegian Foreign Policy]. Vols. 1-6. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1995-1997.
Riste, Olav. Norway's Foreign Relations - A History. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2001.
Riste, Olav and Moland, Arnfinn. "Strengt hemmelig": Norsk etterretningsteneste 1945-1970. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1997. (Revised version in English as: Riste, Olav. The Norwegian Intelligence Service 1945-1970. London: Cass, 1999).
Skogrand Kjetil and Tamnes, Rolf. Fryktens likevekt. Atombomben, Norge og verden 1945-1970 [Balance of Terror. The Atomic Bomb, Norway and the World 1945-1970]. Oslo: Tiden, 2001.
Tamnes, Rolf. The United States and the Cold War in the High North. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1991.
Under publication: The History of Norwegian Defence. Vols. 1-5. Oslo: Eide Forlag, 1999-?.

Turkey
Leffler, Melvyn P. "Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: The United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945-1952." The Journal of American History 71, No. 4 (March 1985): 807-825.

United Kingdom
Dockrill, Saki. Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament, 1950-1955. (Cambridge Studies in International Relations; 13). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Heuser, Beatrice. NATO, Britain, France, and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Twigge, Stephen et al. "Britain, the United States, and the Development of NATO Strategy, 1950-1964." Journal of Strategic Studies 19, No. 2 (1996): 260-282.
Wyn Rees, G. Anglo-American Approaches to Alliance Security, 1950-60. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.

United States
Dockrill, Saki. Eisenhower's New-Look National Security Policy, 1953-6. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Duffield, John S. "The Soviet Military Threat to Western Europe: U.S. Estimates in the 1950s and 1960s." Journal of Strategic Studies 15 (June 1992): 208-227.
Fürst, Andreas. Der U.S. Kongress und die amerikanische NATO-Politik 1948-1989: Eine Untersuchung zur Policy-Formierung von Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik. Sinzheim: Pro-Universitate-Verlag, 1996.
Hampton, Mary N. The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance. (Twayne's International History Series; 1). New York: Twayne, 1994.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years. New York: Praeger, 1999.
Kaplan, Lawrence S. The United States and NATO: The Formative Years. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
Wampler, Robert A. "Eisenhower, NATO, and Nuclear Weapons: The Strategy and Political Economy of Alliance Security." In Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment, ed. by Günter Bischof / Stephen E. Ambrose. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1995: 162-190.
Wampler, Robert. "Die USA, Adenauer und die atomare Strategie der NATO." In Die doppelte Eindämmung: Europäische Sicherheit und deutsche Frage in den Fünzigern, ed. by Rolf Steiniger et al. (eds.). München: v.Hase&Koehler, 1993.
Wiebes, Cees and Bert Zeeman. "NATO and the United States: An Essay in Kaplanesque History." In The Romance of History: Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. Kaplan, ed. by E. Timothy Smith and Scott L. Bills. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997.
Wyn Rees, G. Anglo-American Approaches to Alliance Security, 1950-60. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.

 

Warsaw Pact

General
Bluth, Christopher. "Offensive Defense in the Warsaw Pact: Re-Interpreting a Military Doctrine." The Journal of Strategic Studies 18, No. 4 (December 1995): 55-77.
Deim, Hans Werner. "Militärische Konzeption der UdSSR und des Warschauer Vertrages im Wandel." MARS: Jahrbuch für Wehrpolitik und Militärfragen 2 (1996): 148-178.
Fodor, Neil. The Warsaw Treaty Organization: A Political and Organizational Analysis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Fuhrer, Hans Rudolf. "Die Schweiz im Fadenkreuz des Warschauer Paktes?" In Jahrbuch für internationale Sicherheitspolitik, ed. by Erich Reiter. Wien, 1999.
Gitz, Bradley R. Armed Forces and Political Power in Eastern Europe: The Soviet/Communist Control System. (Contributions in Political Science; 292). New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Gribkow, Anatoli. Der Warschauer Pakt: Geschichte und Hintergründe des östlichen Militärbündnisses. Berlin: Edition q, 1995.
Hacker, J. Der Ostblock: Entstehung, Entwicklung und Struktur, 1939-1980. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1983.
Herspring, Dale R. "Reassessing the Warsaw Pact Threat: The East European Militaries." Arms Contol Today 20 (March 1985): 8-12.
Holden, Gerard. The Warsaw Pact: The WTO and Soviet Security Policy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
Jones, Christopher D. Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe: Political Autonomy and the Warsaw Pact. Brooklyn, New York: Praeger, 1981.
Kulikow, Viktor. "'Kalter Krieg': Sicht aus dem Osten." In Neue Perspektiven zum Kalten Krieg: Bericht der MFS-Frühjahrstagung 1999, ed. by Hans Rudolf Fuhrer. Zürich: Militärische Führungsschule ETH Zürich, 1999: 37-61.
Mastny, Vojtech. Reassuring NATO: Eastern Europe, Russia and the Western Alliance. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, 1997.
Tiedtke, Stephan. Die Warschauer Vertragsorganisation: Zum Verhältnis von Militär- und Entspannungspolitik in Osteuropa. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1978.
Umbach, Frank. "Die Evolution des Warschauer Paktes als aussen- und militärpolitisches Instrument sowjetischer Sicherheitspolitik 1955-1991." Dissertation. Bonn: Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1995.
Westad, Odd Arne, Sven Holtsmark, and Iver B. Neumann (eds.). The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.

Periods

Origins
MackIntosh, Malcolm. "The Evolution of the Warsaw Pact." RUSI Journal: The RUSI Journal of Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies 134, No. 4 (1989): 16ff.
Mastny, Vojtech. "The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Warsaw Pact in 1955." In Mechanisms of Power and Soviet Foreign Policy, ed. by Niels Erik Rosenfeldt, Bent Jensen, and Erik Kulavig. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

1950s
Baev, Jordan. "The Build-up of the Warsaw Pact's Military Structures, 1955-1969." Military History Journal 66, No. 5 (September/Oktober 1997): 56-77.
Bekes, Csaba, Malcolm Byrne, and Christian Ostermann (eds.). The Hidden History of Hungary 1956: A Compendium of Declassified Documents. Washington: National Security Archive, 1996.
Mastny, Vojtech. "We are in a Bind: Polish and Czechoslovak Attempts at Reforming the Warsaw Pact, 1956-1969." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 11 (Winter 1998): 230-250.

1960s
Baev, Jordan. "The Build-up of the Warsaw Pact's Military Structures, 1955-1969." Military History Journal 66, No. 5 (September/Oktober 1997): 56-77.
Kramer, Mark. "The ‚Lessons' of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Warsaw Pact Nuclear Operations." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 5 (1995): 59, 110-115, 160.
Mastny, Vojtech. "Militarization of the Warsaw Pact and the Onset of Détente in the 1960s." In Socio-Political Dimensions of the Changes in the Slavic-Eurasian World, ed. by Shugo Minagawa and Osamu Ieda. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkiado University, 1996: 3-17.
Mastny, Vojtech. "We are in a Bind: Polish and Czechoslovak Attempts at Reforming the Warsaw Pact, 1956-1969." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 11 (Winter 1998): 230-250.
Pauer, Jan. Prag 1968: Der Einmarsch des Warschauer Paktes: Hintergründe, Planung, Durchführung. Bremen: Edition Temmen, 1995.

1970s
Heuser, Beatrice. "Warsaw Pact Military Doctrine in the 1970s and 1980s: Findings in East German Archives." Comparative Strategy 4 (1993): 437-457.
Kramer, Mark. "The Official (West) German Report: Warsaw Pact Military Planning in Central Europe: Revelations from East German Archives." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 2 (1992): 1, 13-19.

1980s
Baev, Jordan. "The End of the Warsaw Pact 1985-1991: Viewed from the Bulgarian Archives." Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact [http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php] (November 2000).
Bunce, Valerie. "The Empire Strikes Back: The Transformation of the Eastern Bloc from a Soviet Asset to a Soviet Liability." International Organization 1 (1985): 1-46.
Farwick, Dieter. "Die Optionen des Warschauer Paktes gegenüber NATO-Europa." In Strategiediskussion: NATO-Strategie im Wandel: Alternative Sicherheitskonzepte: Strategische Defensive, ed. by Hartmut Bühl. Herford-Bonn, 1987: 91-104.
Garner, William V. Soviet Threat Perceptions of NATO's Eurostrategic Missiles. Paris, 1983.
Heuser, Beatrice. "Warsaw Pact Military Doctrine in the 1970s and 1980s: Findings in East German Archives." Comparative Strategy 4 (1993): 437-457.
Jones, Christopher. "Gorbachev and the Warsaw Pact." Eastern European Politics and Societies 2 (1989): 215-234.
Jones, Christopher. "Protection From One's Friends: The Disintegration of the Warsaw Pact." In Soviet Strategy and New Military Thinking, ed. by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson. New York, 1992: 100-126.
Kramer, Mark. "The Official (West) German Report: Warsaw Pact Military Planning in Central Europe: Revelations from East German Archives." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 2 (1992): 1, 13-19.
Kramer, Mark. "The Warsaw Pact and the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: Honecker's Call for Military Intervention." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 5 (1995): 124.

Countries

Albania
Baev, Jordan. "The End of the Warsaw Pact 1985-1991: Viewed from the Bulgarian Archives." Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact [http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php] (November 2000).

CSSR
Kaplan, Karel. Dans les archives du comité central: Trente ans de secrèts du bloc soviétique. Paris: Michael, 1978.
Pauer, Jan. Prag 1968: Der Einmarsch des Warschauer Paktes: Hintergründe, Planung, Durchführung. Bremen: Edition Temmen, 1995.

GDR
Anderson, Sheldon. A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
Hoffmann, Theodor. "Zum Kalten Krieg aus der Sicht der DDR." In Neue Perspektiven zum Kalten Krieg: Bericht der MFS-Frühjahrstagung 1999, ed. by Hans Rudolf Fuhrer. Zürich: Militärische Führungsschule ETH Zürich, 1999: 22-36.
Kramer, Mark. "The Official (West) German Report: Warsaw Pact Military Planning in Central Europe: Revelations from East German Archives." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 2 (1992): 1, 13-19.

Hungary
Bekes, Csaba, Malcolm Byrne, and Christian Ostermann (eds.). The Hidden History of Hungary 1956: A Compendium of Declassified Documents. Washington: National Security Archive, 1996.
Ehrenberger, Robert (ed.)."A béketábor magyar hadserege: A magyar demokratikus hadsereg és a Magyar Néphadsereg Hadtörténelmi Levéltárban orzött katonai irataiból 1945 - 1957 [The Hungarian Army of the Peace Camp: From military records of the Hungarian Democratic Army and the Hungarian People's Army preserved at the War History Archives, 1945-1957]." In Series of Publications of the War History Archives, ed. by Jolán Szijj. Budapest: Petit Real, 2001.

Poland
Anderson, Sheldon. A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc: Polish-East German Relations, 1945-1962. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.
Kramer, Mark. "The Warsaw Pact and the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: Honecker's Call for Military Intervention." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 5 (1995): 124.

Romania
Garthoff, Raymond L. "When and Why Romania Distanced Itself from the Warsaw Pact." Cold War International History Project Bulletin 5 (1995): 111.
Retegan, Mihai. In the Shadow of the Prague Spring: Romanian Foreign Policy and the Crisis in Czechoslovakia, 1968. Iasi: Center for Romanian Studies, 2000.

Soviet Union
Bluth, Christopher. The Collapse of Soviet Military Power. Aldershot, Hants, Eng.; Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth Pub. Co., 1995.
Boll, Michael M. "The Revolution in Soviet/Russian Military Doctrine, 1984-1994." In Russia's New Doctrine: Two Views, ed. by James F. Holcomb and Michael M. Boll. Carlisle: U.S. Army War College, 1994.
Burr, William. "Soviet Cold War Military Strategy: Using Declassified History." Cold War International History Bulletin 4 (1994): 9-13.
Diehl, Ole. Die Strategiediskussion in der Sowjetunion: Zum Wandel der sowjetischen Kriegsführungskonzeption in den achtziger Jahren. Wiesbaden: DUV 1993.
Hines, John G, Philip A. Petersen, and Nora Trulock III. "Soviet Military Theory from 1945-2000." The Washington Quarterly 9, No. 4 (Fall 1983): 117-137.
Odom, William E. The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Umbach, Frank. "Die Evolution des Warschauer Paktes als aussen- und militärpolitisches Instrument sowjetischer Sicherheitspolitik 1955-1991." Dissertation. Bonn: Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1995.
Westad, Odd Arne, Sven Holtsmark, and Iver B. Neumann (eds.). The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.