NATO after the January 1994 Summit: The View from Brussels

F or more than forty years, the Atlantic Alliance found itself locked in a critical confrontation with the Soviet Union. The alliance won the Cold War, and the Soviet bloc remained saddled with a crippled and uncompetitive economic and social system, a discredited political structure, a bankrupt ideology, and unresolved internal conflicts that had been suppressed for decades. During the Cold War y…