Includes maps of: NATO Expansion; European Union; Afghanistan.

Pt. I: Cold War Alliance -- The Bargain as a Framework for Analysis -- Genesis of the Bargain -- The Transatlantic Bargain Revised -- The Bargain through the Cold War, 1954-1989 -- The United States and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors -- pt. II: Post-Cold War Alliance -- NATO Outreach and Enlargement: The Legacy of Harmel -- NATO and Russia: Partnership or New Cold War? -- NATO's Post-Cold War Military Missions in Theory and Practice -- NATO in Afghanistan -- European Security and Defense Policy and the Transatlantic Bargain -- Implications of the Bush, 9/11, and Iraq Shocks for the Transatlantic Bargain -- pt. III: Permanent Alliance? -- Is NATO Necessary but Not Sufficient? -- Permanent Alliance?.