At arm's length
Nato and the United Nations in the cold war era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12536655 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin A Smith (0000-0002-2405-0083, University of Bradford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-73 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Peacekeeping (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-3312 • E-ISSN: 1743-906X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13533319508413537 |
| OpenAlex | W1977427040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
For most of the Cold War, NATO and the UN were at arm's length. The two organizations diverged fundamentally in their security priorities and their preferred means for achieving international stability. The attitudes of Western governments to the question of the institutional relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty and its supporting organization and international security goals laid down in the UN Charter are revealed in declassified US government documents. Although some US politicians initially envisaged a ‘fit’ between the two bodies, divergences appeared during the negotiations for the North Atlantic Treaty in the late 1940s. Two important crises briefly raised the possibility of NATO and the UN evolving a more formal institutional relationship: the Korean crisis (1950–53) and the second Cyprus crisis (1963–64). However, no lasting improvements in the NATO‐UN relationship were forthcoming on either occasion, in part because most European members of NATO were unenthusiastic about expanding NATO's commitments beyond the Central Front
Alliance · Charter · Cold war · Economics · Front (military · Geography · Government (linguistics · International trade · Negotiation · North Atlantic Treaty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Treaty · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Military History and Strategy
Foreign Relations of the United States
Foreign Relations of the United States
The North Atlantic Treaty, The Brussels Treaty and the Charter of the United Nations
Peace-Keeping and the United Nations
The U. N. and Trygve Lie
Collective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations
The Free World and the United Nations
The new United Nations and former Yugoslavia
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |