7 The United States and NATO Is There a Western Strategic Culture?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an institutional reflection of Western strategic culture. Born in 1949 as one element of the far-ranging post-World War II reinvention of Western institutions, the Alliance has been the premier focus of a common set of perspectives, interests, desires, and beliefs by the free states of the world. Membership has grown dramatically since NATO’s founding, which shows the draw of those worldviews for new member states.
There were numerous international institutions created by the victorious West following World War II, but only NATO held the central responsibility of providing a political-military ...
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