Sten Rynning NATO review, recensie en informatie boek met een geschiedenis van ’s werelds machtigste alliantie de NAVO. Op 8 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de NAVO van de Deense professor en schrijver Sten Rynning. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.
Sten Rynning NATO review en recensie
- “Extremely readable. It provides a great overview of what NATO is, why it came about, and how it has evolved. Rynning does an excellent job.” (James Goldgeier)
- “The history of NATO is one of constant adaptation and evolution – with many twists and turns along the way. Professor Stan Rynning’s book recounts with style and detail a remarkable story. As someone who lived through some of its most momentous moments I can admire the landscape painted here of seventy five years of growth, power and (mixed) achievement. A billion people sleep easy in their beds today because the NATO Alliance protects them. Here they can, and should, see why that has happened.” (Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG, 10th Secretary General of NATO, 1999-2003)
NATO
From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance
- Auteur: Sten Rynning (Denemarken)
- Soort boek: geschiedenis van de NAVO
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Verschijnt: 8 juli 2025
- Omvang: 400 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: $ 22,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over de geschiedenis van de NATO
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary.
For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia’s war on Ukraine and on Europe’s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?
In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.
At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance’s intriguing history—and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.
Sten Rynning has researched and written on NATO for twenty-five years. He is a professor and director of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark, and the author of NATO in Afghanistan.
