Nato’s other great internal crisis of the Cold War focused more on the Federal Republic of Germany. By the 1970s there was no longer any pretence that the defence of western Europe against a Red Army attack would involve a controlled escalation to eventual nuclear war: because of..…

In the years following the fall of Soviet Union, Poland emerged as nation poised to embrace and fulfill the promises of Western democracy. ..…

As the “only democracy in the Middle East” (a characterization wielded by many U.S. politicians), Israel was represented as a liberal, Western outpost among the Oriental barbarians of Nasser’s armies and Iran’s Shia clerics. ..…