NATO and the Warsaw Pact : intrabloc conflicts / edited by Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. NATO united, NATO divided : the transatlantic relationship / Lawrence S. Kaplan -- 2. Colonialism and the Atlantic alliance : Anglo-American perspectives at the United Nations, 1945-1963 / Mary Ann Heiss -- 3. "Learning by doing" : disintegrating factors and the development of political cooperation in early NATO / Winfried Heinemann -- 4. Failed rampart : NATO's Balkan front / John O. Iatrides -- 5. Containing the French malaise? The role of NATO's Secretary general, 1958-1968 / Anne Locher and Christian Nuenlist -- 6. The multilateral force as an instrument for a European nuclear force? / Ine Megens -- 7. Ostpolitik as a source of Intrabloc tensions / Oliver Bange -- 8. The Florentine in winter : François Mitterrand and the ending of the Cold War, 1989-1991 / Charles Cogan -- 9. The Warsaw Pact : an alliance in search of a purpose / Vojtech Mastny -- 10. Polish-East German relations, 1945-1958 / Sheldon Anderson -- 11. The Warsaw Pact and the German question, 1955-1970 : conflict and consensus / Douglas Selvage -- 12. The Warsaw Pact and Southern tier conflicts, 1959-1969 / Jordan Baev -- 13. The Sino-Soviet conflict and the Warsaw Pact, 1969-1980 / Bernd Schaefer -- 14. Why was there no "Second cold war" in Europe? Hungary and the east-west crisis following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan / Csaba Békés}es