| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Transatlantic Relations at Stake: Aspects of NATO, 1956–1972. Ed. by Christian Nuenlist and Anna Locher. (Zurich: Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, 2006. 257 pp. ISBN 3-905696-12-6.)

At critical points in their histories, international and regional institutions have to adapt successfully to changing conditions or they become irrelevant and die. The sad experience of the League of Nations shows that tendency. The defense pact we call the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has also been buffeted by the winds of change over its sixty- year existence. The essays in Transatlantic Relations at Stake represent a report card on the challenges that NATO faced from 1956 to 1972 and its responses. The authors, a distinguished group of predominantly European and Canadian scholars, give mixed grades, but the general picture is clear. Despite serious problems during this period, the alliance overcame them and marched into the 1970s in relatively good shape.

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