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How and why did NATO, a Cold War military alliance created in 1949 to counter Stalin's USSR, become the cornerstone of new security order for post-Cold War Europe? Why, instead of retreating from Europe after communism's collapse, did the U.S. launch the greatest expansion of the American commitment to the old continent in decades? Written by a high-level insider, Opening NATO's Door provides a definitive account of the ideas, politics, and diplomacy that went into the historic decision to expand NATO to Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the still-classified archives of the U.S. Departmen

Argues that the NATO must be invented a second time since its post-Cold War adjustments to prepare for the challenges of the post-post-Cold War era of terrorist threat and interests based beyond Europe. NATO must promote stability and democracy deeper into Eurasia and the Black Sea region, project this stability to the broader Middle East, and achieve a new sense of strategic purpose and unity between Europe and North America.

Most of the countries of Central & Eastern Europe will soon become members of the European Union & NATO. However, while the region has the historical triumph within its reach, the West it has worked so hard to join is increasingly divided over various issues. The foundations of major institutions that were to guarantee the future of Central & Eastern Europe are shaken. Ronald D. Asmus, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe in the second Clinton administration, identifies & analyzes three main challenges that the region faces in the decade ahead -- the first one lies across the Atlantic, the second one within Europe & the third one lies within the region itself. Adapted from the source document.