“There are not very many books that focus on NATO directly, and more attention to the organization’s formal charter and its practical effects is welcome. This book’s ambitions to be both historical and contemporary, and both textual and practical, are distinctive and terrific.”—Ian Hurd, Northwestern University
~Ian Hurd
"Ian Shapiro and Adam Tooze could not have produced a more timely or fitting book. NATO, arguably the longest alliance of predominant political and military power in international history, has been undergoing a prolonged identity crisis. By assembling the essential primary documents and a thoughtful set of diverse expert commentary, the editors shine a bright light on past controversies and identify the immense challenges NATO faces today."—Michael Doyle, author of The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect, and University Professor, Columbia University
"The NATO Charter is an outstanding primer on that longstanding and formidable alliance. It not only contains many of the key documents that underpin NATO, but also includes a host of fine essays that discuss its history and its future."—John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
~John J. Mearsheimer
"For almost seventy years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been a fixture of the international security environment. Today, as questions about NATO's continued relevance mount, Shapiro and Tooze offer a carefully curated selection of documents and essays that will prove mandatory reading for anyone interested in studying the alliance's past or thinking seriously about its future."—Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
~Tarek Masoud
