Download or read book NATO the Warsaw Pact and the Iron Curtain written by Erik Richardson and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The looming threat of Communist expansion led the United States and eleven Western nations to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Responding to NATO, the Soviet Union and the Communist Eastern bloc formed the Warsaw Pact. European nations soon aligned with one of the opposing military forces. This book takes a closer look at how NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Iron Curtain played a role in the sharp political division between the West and East.
Download or read book Hungary written by Tibor Benkő and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines how the Hungarian Armed Forces have changed from the Cold War Warsaw Pact focus to the democratic focus of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The first part of the paper will provide a historical perspective of Hungary in the Warsaw Pact and describe the events from the point of view of socialist countries. The next part will focus on the integration of Hungary into NATO from both a political and military perspective. Particular attention will be given to the roles Hungary have played in the many international exercises, peacekeeping missions, and the Partnership for Peace Program. The paper will then examine the differences between Hungary in the Warsaw Pact and NATO to see how the Hungarian military has been transformed. Finally, the paper will conclude with a description of the civil-military relationship along with the security and defense policies that exist today.
Download or read book Hungary From Warsaw Pact to NATO written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines how the Hungarian Armed Forces have changed from the Cold War Warsaw Pact focus to the democratic focus of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The first part of the paper will provide a historical perspective of Hungary in the Warsaw Pact and describe the events from the point of view of socialist countries. The next part will focus on the integration of Hungary into NATO from both a political and military perspective. Particular attention will be given to the roles Hungary have played in the many international exercises, peacekeeping missions, and the Partnership for Peace Program. The paper will then examine the differences between Hungary in the Warsaw Pact and NATO to see how the Hungarian military has been transformed. Finally, the paper will conclude with a description of the civil-military relationship along with the security and defense policies that exist today.
Download or read book NATO Expansion written by László Borhi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Warsaw Pact written by Robert W. Clawson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book AMERICA S NEW ALLIES p written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's New Alliesgives readers an informative and incisive analysis of the contribution that NATO's three new members will be making to enhance Euro-Atlantic security. The book provides a timely refutation to all the nay-sayers who failed to understand that NATO's enlargement greatly enhances the prospects of a secure and peaceful Europe."--Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies "By examining the expansion of NATO as a process of post-communist integration,America's New Alliesmakes a significant contribution to our understanding of East Central Europe's role in our common security future."--Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University America's New Alliescomprehensively analyzes the strengths and liabilities that accompany the 1999 addition of three former Soviet satellite nations--Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic--to the ranks of the 16-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This controversial enlargement of NATO formalizes the new geopolitical realities in Eastern Europe and forces the U.S. military to confront the prospect of defending these former enemies against armed attack. This round of enlargement is part of a larger restructuring of NATO underway since the end of the Cold War and tested by NATO's 1999 action in Kosovo. The current enlargement--together with the prospect of adding other countries to NATO and the unprecedented institutional challenges highlighted during the Kosovo conflict--represents a defining moment for the emerging post-Cold War security architecture and, in turn, for the long-term relationship between the United States and Europe. The issues discussed inAmerica's New Allieswill be vigorously debated for years to come.
Download or read book Hungary and the NATO Enlargement written by Tamás Csapody and published by Institute for Political Science of Hungarian Academy of Scie. This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Reform in Central Europe and the Challenges of NATO Membership written by Brad A. Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of communism in Central Europe, the former Soviet satellite states have sought closer relations with the West. An immediate goal was membership in NATO. To meet the conditions of membership, the former Warsaw Pact members had to make significant reforms within their defense establishments that would meet NATO's interoperability requirements. Despite the incentive of potential NATO membership, the development and implementation of such reforms has been slow. The objective of this study is to answer the research question," Why has defense reform proven so elusive in an environment where key actors agree on the desirability, necessity, and the benefits of its formulation and implementation?"
Download or read book Hungary a Member of NATO written by Tibor Bozo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Hungary has been at the center of European history, politics and culture. The Cold War, however, artificially divided Europe, and cut Hungary off from the Western half of the continent. We have come a long way in a rather short of period of time with historical standards. The first democratic government formed after the 1990 elections set the goal for the country to reintegrate into the community of free and democratic states that have provided well-being for their citizens. We have been at home in Europe for more than thousand years. Not only in terms of geography, but also because of our culture, our traditions and the basic values that we stand for. However, our endeavors for integration could be realized because of the circumstances that had emerged after World War II. The chance finally came in 1990 with the peaceful revolution that swept over Central and Eastern Europe, in which Hungary played an active part. The Political change and NATO-membership are two very significant events of current history of Hungary. 1990 and 1999. This nine-year period was short, however our tasks were problematic. We had created a NEW HUNGARY! The way was difficult and sometimes painful. This paper examines how the Hungary and Hungarian Armed Forces have changed from the Cold War Warsaw Pact focus to the democratic focus of NATO. The paper will focus on the integration of Hungary into North Atlantic Treaty from both a political and military perspective. Particular attention will be given to the roles Hungary has played in the lot of international exercises, PfP program and peacekeeping missions. Finally, the conclusion will be provided by former Hungarian Prime Minister's (Viktor Orban) words.
Download or read book NATO Its Past Present Future written by Peter Duignan and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meeting Gorbachev s Challenge written by Jonathan Dean and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the prospects for building down the NATO/Warsaw Pact military confrontation in Europe by negotiated and unilateral measures. The book also gives a far-sighted view of an organization of defence in Europe that will be set up to replace the existing security organizations.
Download or read book NATO and the Warsaw Pact written by Mary Ann Heiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recently declassified information, this is a study of the various intrabloc tensions that plagued both the NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War and how those tensions affected the working of the alliances.
Download or read book The Future of NATO written by Ted Galen Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War has raised questions about the future of NATO. Now that the threat from the Warsaw Pact has disappeared, there seems little need for a Western military alliance of such magnitude. The contributions here offer various views on NATO's future.
Download or read book NATO Neutrality and National Identity written by András Kovács and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2003 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the cold war was over, a vehement discussion of the new alternatives in security policy started in almost all former Warsaw-Pact States and in the neutral and nonaligned nations, Austria and Hungary among the latter. These nations' entry into the NATO has been the pivotal question. These discussions were the subject of comparative research that was done in Hungary and Austria. The results are presented in the book "NATO, Neutrality and National Identity - the Case of Ausria and Hungary". The book does not focus on the manifold security problems that the concerned nations' joining of NATO would entail but deals with the discourses and debates on neutrality and NATO... The book analyzes the issues of creating identity by discussion both from a historical-sociological standpoint and from the angle of discourse analysis. The individual chapters deal with comparative studies of the change and upheaval in the national identities in Hungary and Austria. Although these specific analyses are intended to be case studies, they allow generalizations on all of central Europe. The individual corpora (opinion surveys, political speeches, focus groups, talk-shows, newspapers), having been selected so as to ensure comparability, are subjected to a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation. Following the introduction - problems are defined from the standpoint of history and political science - the complex discourses from focus group discussions and the outcomes of opinion surveys are presented and analyzed, and newspapers, TV talk-shows and speeches held on days of remembrance are presented applying the methods of discourse analysis. Against this backdrop a comprehensive picture of the identity discourses develops. In the introduction and concluding remarks the two editors draw theoretical and methodical conclusions for interdisciplinary and comparative studies.
Download or read book NATO written by Svetoslav Bombik and published by Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NATO at 60 written by Anton Bebler and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we reach its 60th anniversary, NATO a security alliance of 28 countries from North America and Europe - remains the principal security instrument of the transatlantic community and the expression of its common democratic values. However, the NATO today is not longer that of 1949. After the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, NATO had to reinvent itself politically for the initial challenges of the post-Cold War era. In the space of a decade NATO successfully transformed itself from a North American-Western European Alliance focused exclusively on territorial defence into a pan-European institution with new members stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. NATO s missions have changed and its structures have been reformed accordingly. It has had to adapt to the changing world and changing threats such as terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, transnational trafficking, piracy, cyber attacks or climate change. Sixty years after its foundation NATO has not become rusty or outdated. On the contrary, in the new security environment its role has increased. NATO remains the pre-eminent institutional framework for the USA, Canada and Europe not just to consult together, but also to act together. NATO s key stabilising role in the Balkans and, more recently, in Afghanistan; its role in fighting terrorism; and the continuing interest on the part of several nations in joining NATO, all demonstrate that the Alliance is very much in demand. The Post-Cold War enlargement and the Alliance s future reflects upon NATO s achievements and setbacks at the time that explores the challenges that lie ahead in the future of the most successful military Alliance of the modern Euro-Atlantic history and beyond. This book is a must-have for those interested in international relations, global security and defence issues. IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences
