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Nevertheless, further European integration causes important questions for the United States to be raised with respect to NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was designed to protect the western democracies from Soviet aggression.5 The member countries in NATO are supposedly equal partners. In fact, however, the United States has always acted as the dominant partner.6 In the past, the American approach to NATO has been the source of ill feelings among the other NATO members.7 In the 1990s, it may act as a motivator for the member states of the EC to turn inward to that organization for the future protection of
5T. P. Ireland, Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981), 10.
6P. L. Ferrara, NATO: An Entangled Alliance (New York: Franklin Watts, 1984), 76.
7F. W. von Mellenthin, R. H. S. Stolfi, and E. Sobic, NATO Under Attack (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Policy Studies, 1984), 88.
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