eprintid: 37516
rev_number: 11
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datestamp: 2025-10-31 12:27:41
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type: article
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creators_name: Johnston, Seth A
title: NATO’s ‘Near Death’ and the Study of ‘Vanishing Institutions’
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
subjects: ddc-355
divisions: i-713000
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
abstract: A newly elected president declares NATO ‘obsolete’ and announces his country's withdrawal from parts of the transatlantic Alliance. Some European leaders fear a more complete abandonment. Although France remained a treaty ally after Charles de Gaulle's 1966 announcement, this episode remains the most significant rejection of NATO's organisation in its history. And yet, the potentially fatal crisis catalysed adaptations in the Alliance so successful that they endured through the end of the Cold War. This case offers lessons about institutional endurance in the face of such crisis. NATO adapted boldly, but also prudently; slowly perhaps, but effectively. The high politics of competing national interests and the high stakes of nuclear deterrence demanded change but could not afford catastrophe. How institutions adapt – and by whom – can mean the difference between vanishing and revitalising.
date: 2025
date_type: published
publisher: Sage
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00037516
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944251331411
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-375169
language: eng
bibsort: JOHNSTONSENATOSNEARD20250504
full_text_status: restricted
publication: Journal of Modern European History
volume: 23
number: 2
place_of_pub: London
pagerange: 246-262
pages: 17
issn: 1611-8944 (Druck-Version); 2631-9764 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Johnston, Seth A  (2025) NATO’s ‘Near Death’ and the Study of ‘Vanishing Institutions’.  Journal of Modern European History, 23 (2).  pp. 246-262.  ISSN 1611-8944 (Druck-Version); 2631-9764 (Online-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37516/1/10.1177_16118944251331411.pdf