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Sten Rynning is Professor of international Relations at the University of Southern Denmark, where he also heads the Center for War Studies.
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War Time: Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power (The Chatham House Insights Series) (2021) 5 Exemplare
NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance (2024) 4 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
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Rynning argues that NATO’s history is characterised by cycles of boom and bust between moments of great ambition – its initial establishment in 1949 and the collapse of the Soviet Union – and the subsequent disillusionment, as the alliance struggled with closing the gap between aspiration and reality. Unusually, instead of beginning his narrative at the conclusion of the Second World War, Rynning chooses 1939 as his starting point, when US engagement with the world stood on the brink of a permanent transformation.
Postwar America, Rynning writes, had initially aimed to create a global collective security regime, a new world order based on cooperation and the fostering of communities of shared values, with the United Nations at its core. It is not for nothing that Article 1 of the North Atlantic Treaty (an astonishingly elegant document, which the book helpfully reprints in full) speaks of compliance with the UN Charter, while Article 2, a Canadian initiative, is concerned with the fostering of non-military co-operation and understanding among NATO members – in other words, of a genuine Atlantic political community.
Read the rest of the review at HistoryToday.com.
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