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NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts. Edited by Mary Ann Heiss and S. Victor Papacosma. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-87338-936-5. Notes. Index. Pp. xv, 224. $55.00.
This is a timely book that should inform the future definition of NATO. It contributes to the international history of the Cold War and fills a significant gap in a historiography that has emphasized outward representation over the inner workings of both alliances. Sixteen European and American scholars and policy-makers discuss tensions within each bloc throughout the Cold War. Their essays are based on papers from a 2004 conference hosted by Kent State's Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies and the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (now PHP on Cooperative Security).
NATO and the Warsaw Pact concludes that neither bloc operated as a monolithic unit. As...