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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Laying the foundations of post-war security : the Brussels and North Atlantic treaties, 1947-1949 : documents on British policy overseas, series I, volume X / / edited by Tony Insall and Patrick Salmon"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] : , : Routledge, , 2015"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-134-73684-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-315-88056-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-134-73677-0"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (537 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Whitehall Histories : Foreign and Commonwealth Office Publications"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"341.72026091821"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Security, International"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Europe Defenses"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Europe Politics and government 1945-"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Includes index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations for printed sources; Abbreviated designations; List of persons; Document summaries; I Brussels Treaty and Western Union: 17 December 1947-28 June 1948; II Proposals for an Atlantic Pact: security issues: 2 July-31 December 1948; III Negotiation and signature of the North Atlantic Treaty: 1 January-7 April 1949; Appendix A Text of the Brussels Treaty, 17 March 1948; Appendix B Text of the North Atlantic Treaty, 4 April 1949; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","\"This volume documents the drafting, negotiation and signature of the treaty that has been the cornerstone of European defence for the past sixty-five years: the North Atlantic Treaty signed in April 1949. The story begins at the end of 1947, when the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, became convinced of the need to persuade the United States of America, which had emerged from the Second World War as the pre-eminent global military and economic power and one of the only two superpowers, to underwrite the future security of Western Europe. It progresses through the negotiation of the Brussels Treaty of March 1948 -- an essential prerequisite to securing American participation in a wider defensive system--and ends with the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty after a series of setbacks, difficulties and security threats. The documents, drawn from the archives of the "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office and No. 10 (with some transferred into the public domain for the first time), demonstrate how diplomatic skills and determination, inspired by Bevin's vision, led to a system of collective security that played an indispensable part in the preservation of peace between East and West for the rest of the twentieth century. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War, European and American history, British political history, international history and IR in general\"--"]
[{"$nulls":4},"\"This volume documents the drafting, negotiation, and signature of the treaty that has been the cornerstone of European defence for the past sixty-five years : the North Atlantic Treaty signed in April 1949. The story begins at the end of 1947, when the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, became convinced of the need to persuade the United States of America, which had emerged from the Second World War as the pre-eminent global military and economic power and one of the only two superpowers, to underwrite the future security of Western Europe. It progresses through the negotiation of the Brussels Treaty of March 1948; an essential prerequisite to securing American participation in a wider defensive system; and ends with the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty after a series of setbacks, difficulties and security threats. The documents, drawn from the archives of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office and No. 10 (with some transferred into the public domain for the first time), demonstrate how diplomatic skills and determination, inspired by Bevin's vision, led to a system of collective security that played an indispensable part in the preservation of peace between East and West for the rest of the twentieth century. This book will be of much interest to students of the Cold War, European and American history, British political history, international history and IR in general\"--"]