Review: European Union: The Promise of Alliance NATO
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| Author | Trevor Lloyd |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300222 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Episodic
international
coverage
Tan
Thomas
has
written
a
survey
of
hemispheric
events
leaves
out-
l
of
the
rhetoric
and
public
state-
siders
with
a
recognition
of
the
ments
about
NATO's
objectives
of
important
dimensions
of
formal leading
representatives
of
the
Unit-
democracy.
(How
many
of
us
can
ed
States,
Britain,
France,
and
forget
the
vivid
images
of
violent
(West)
Germany.
This
certainly
has
despotism
in
places
like
Chile,
its
uses;
while
it
is
hard
to
tell
what
Nicaragua,
and
Guatemala?)
Yet
is
the relationship
between
rhetoric
today,
in
the
wake
of
military
dicta-
and
a
speaker's
real
beliefs,
rhetoric
torships,
fully
fledged
and
robust
shows
what
the
speaker
thinks
that
democracy
depends
on
the informal
other
people
believe.
But
the
author
qualities
of
civil
society,
popular
perhaps
lays
too
much
stress
on
the
participation,
citizenship
and
social
uplifting
rather
than the
belligerent
responsibility which
are
complex
side
of
NATO
rhetoric.
He
ends
by
and
difficult
to
facilitate.
Their
being
unhappy
about
the
expansion
enhancement,
in
turn,
relies
greatly
of
NATO
going
on at
present,
and
on
the
effectiveness
of
the
economy, sounds
more
surprised
by
it
than
is
Unfortunately,
Latin
America's
his-
really
justified.
torically
inequitable distribution
of
income
has
further
deteriorated
in
THE
EXPANDING
EUROPEAN
UNION
the
last
decade,
seriously
challeng-
Past,
present,
future
ing
if
not
undermining
the
trend
Edited
by
John
Redmond
and
toward democratization.
Despite
Glenda
G.
Rosenthal
that,
the
editors
conclude
that
the
Boulder
CO
and
London:
Lynne
growing
regional
and
international
Rienner,
1998,
viii,
235,
US$49.95
sensitivity
to rights
(and
the
need
to
create
mechanisms
to
ensure
their
Almost
all
eligible
states
have
now
realization)
give
grounds
for
opti-
applied
to
join
the
European
Union,
mism
about
the
future.
either
because
of
its
record
of
success,
or
because
they
see
it
as
a
way
to
EUROPEAN
UNION
escape
difficulties
in
their
own
past
Reviews
by
Trevor
Lloyd
history.
This
introduction
to
the
problem
gives
a
little
of
the
history
of
THE
PROMISE
OF
ALLIANCE
the
effect
of
previous
enlargements
NATO
and
the political
imagination and
a
little
of
the
analysis
that
will
Ian
Q.R.Thomas
have
to
be
undertaken
before
large-
Lanham
MD:
Maryland and
Oxford, scale
enlargement
in eastern
Europe
1997
xii,
305pp, US$67.50
cloth,
can became
a
reality;
It
will
give
read-
US$24.95paper
ers
an
idea
of
what the
questions
are,
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JOURNAL
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1998
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