{"product_id":"9780773560000","title":"Community or Alliance?: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-1957","description":"During NATO's formative years, its leadership tried to develop an economic, social, and political role for the organization in an effort to transform it into a community of nations. Using material from Canadian, American, French, and British archives, John Milloy analyses these unsuccessful attempts to develop NATO's non-military potential.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMilloy challenges the view that creating greater alliance unity has usually been only a Canadian preoccupation - other members, notably the United States and Britain, displayed a sincere interest as well - and further suggests that Canadian actions sometimes acted as an impediment. He argues that the idea failed partly because the lack of an agreed-upon definition for NATO's non-military potential hampered focused discussion. With NATO facing a post-9\/11 relevancy crisis, Milloy shows that there are parallels to the inter-alliance struggles of the 1950s and that many of the early frustrations and obstacles are still present.","brand":"McGill-Queens University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127381082352,"sku":"9780773560000","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780773560000_p0.jpg?v=1763660428","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780773560000","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}