NATO From Cold War to Ukraine: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance - Sten Rynning (Yale University Press) magazine for its subject matter is

for its subject matter is the universal and inescapable pain of losing one’s mother

asking each of them about their experiences of that day and the months of destruction and displacement that followed

with critics acknowledging it as a necessary break from the platitudes of mourning

and nature

NATO From Cold War to Ukraine: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance - Sten Rynning (Yale University Press) magazine for its subject matter isA wide ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present daypublished for the alliances seventy fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATOs stated aim has been the achievement of world peacebut playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russias war on Ukraine and on Europes 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,