Atlantic alliance:short political guide/ by Alvin J. Cottrell and James E. Dougherty

The succession of crises that shook the Atlantic Alliance from December 1952 onwards the cancellation of Skybolt, the Nassau agreement for a NATO deterrent, President de Gaulle's veto of Britain's application for entry into the EEC, and the complex diplomatic aftermath of that event could have made a balanced assessment of the Alliance difficult. How ever the authors of this new volume in the Pall Mall series of Short Political Guides have succeeded in according these crises their due of attention and no more, and their basic task has been to analyse the persistent problems confronting the Alliance and to sketch in broad strokes the

general direction in which it is moving. This political guide goes beyond matters purely political; for the politics of the Alliance since 1949 have been bound up with problems of military strategy and economic integration-these three factors being inseparable. A chapter on Soviet

views of NATO deepens the perspective. THE AUTHORS have been keenly interested in the fortunes of NATO since their graduate days at the University of Pennsylvania over decade ago. a Dr. Alvin J. Cottrell serves in the Institute for Defence Analyses in Washington, and Dr. James E. Dougherty is on the staff of the Foreign Policy Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.