NATO and the UN: A Peculiar Relationship

by Lawrence S. Kaplan

When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed just four years after the United Nations, it provided its members with a measure of security in the face of the Soviet Union's veto power in the senior organization's Security Council, as well as a means of coping with Communist expansion. Ever since then, the two institutions have been competitors in maintaining peace in the postwar world. Occasionally they have cooperated; more often they have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826218954
• ISBN13: 9780826218957
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5