Exit stratgies: American grand designs for postwar European security

Agricultural History Review

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1-

  Sheetz, Mark S ^a  

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EID: 0041940617     PISSN: 00021490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09636419908429385     Document Type: Article

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1. Witness the virtual absence of debate over NATO expansion, which commits the United States to go to nuclear war over the territorial integrity of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. After what the New York Times characterized as "perfunctory" debate (editorial, 24 April 1998), NATO expansion was ratified by the U.S. Senate on 30 April 1998 by a vote of 80-19. Passage was assured because NATO expansion, like the postwar policy of containment, appealed to both liberals and conservatives alike. For liberals who wish to promote American values, NATO represents an institution which instilled liberal democratic values and facilitated cooperation in western Europe during the cold war, and which now provides an institutional basis for enlarging the community of democratic nations. See Strobe Talbott, "Why NATO Should Grow," New York Review of Books, 10 August 1995, 27-30; and President William J. Clinton, "Remarks to Future Leaders of Europe," Brussels, 9 January 1994, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 30, no. 2 (17 January 1994), 11-17. For conservatives who support expanding America's sphere of influence while Russia is still powerless to prevent it, NATO represents a projection of U.S. hegemonic power which
2. Witness the virtual absence of debate over NATO expansion, which commits the United States to go to nuclear war over the territorial integrity of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. After what the New York Times characterized as "perfunctory" debate (editorial, 24 April 1998), NATO expansion was ratified by the U.S. Senate on 30 April 1998 by a vote of 80-19. Passage was assured because NATO expansion, like the postwar policy of containment, appealed to both liberals and conservatives alike. For liberals who wish to promote American values, NATO represents an institution which instilled liberal democratic values and facilitated cooperation in western Europe during the cold war, and which now provides an institutional basis for enlarging the community of democratic nations. See Strobe Talbott, "Why NATO Should Grow," New York Review of Books, 10 August 1995, 27-30; and President William J. Clinton, "Remarks to Future Leaders of Europe," Brussels, 9 January 1994, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 30, no. 2 (17 January 1994), 11-17. For conservatives who support expanding America's sphere of influence while Russia is still powerless to prevent it, NATO represents a projection of U.S. hegemonic power which