Publication

Jul 2004

This dossier features the first series of subject files in the NATO archives to have undergone the process of declassification and public disclosure. After the withdrawal of France from NATO’s integrated military structure, Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Harmel approached Washington with the idea of a major study on the future of the alliance. By accepting the Harmel Report and deciding what functions NATO should assume in the future, the alliance overcame the most severe crisis in its history.

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Author Andreas Wenger
Series PHP Collections
Publisher Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP)
Copyright © 2005 Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
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