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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Origin and History. On 4 April 1949 the foreign ministers of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK and the USA signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing the North A tlantic Alliance. In 1952 Greece and Turkey acceded to the Treaty; in 1955 came the Federal Republic of Germany; in 1982 Spain; in 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland; and in 2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, bringing the total to 26 member nations.

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  • Carr, F. and Infantis, K., NATO in the New European Order. London, 1996

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  • Cook, D., The Forging of an Alliance. London, 1989

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  • Smith, J. (ed.) The Origins of NATO. Exeter Univ. Press, 1990

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  • Williams, P., North Atlantic Treaty Organization [Bibliography]. Oxford and New Brunswick (NJ), 1994

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  • Yost, David S., NATO Transformed: The Alliance’s New Roles in International Security. United States Institute for Peace, Washington, D.C., 1999

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Turner, B. (2004). North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2005. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271333_7

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